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A mathematician by formal education, and a geek with an interest in the net's technology and its interaction with society by passion, Thomas started out around ICANN as a frequent poster to certain mailing lists. He ended up as the [[DNSO]] General Assembly's last chair, a veteran of the [[WHOIS]] wars, one of the first two people to leave the At-Large Advisory Committee (in early 2005), and [[ALAC]]'s liaison the [[GNSO]] Council during that time. Thomas occasionally blogs about [[ICANN]] at [http://log.does-not-exist.org no such weblog].

'''Thomas Roessler''' is a mathematician by formal education, and a geek with an interest in the net's technology and its interaction with society by passion. Thomas started out around [[ICANN]] as a frequent poster to certain mailing lists.<ref>[http://log.does-not-exist.org/ No such weblog]</ref> He ended up as the [[DNSO]] General Assembly's last chair, a veteran of the [[WHOIS]] wars, one of the first two people to leave the [[ALAC|At-Large Advisory Committee]] (in early 2005), and ALAC's liaison to the [[GNSO]] Council during that time. Thomas occasionally blogs about ICANN at No Such Weblog.  He was formerly a non-voting member of the [[ICANN Board]], where he represented the [[TLC|Technical Liaison Group]] from 2011 to 2012, as well as 2008 to 2009.<ref>[http://www.icann.org/en/biog/roessler.htm Bio Roessler, ICANN.org]</ref>

In late 2004, Thomas joined the World Wide Web Consortium's staff to focus more on the technical side of the net. He now serves as W3C's Security Activity Lead, and is involved in the European [http://www.primelife.eu/ PrimeLife] and [http://www.privacyos.de PrivacyOS] projects.

In late 2004, Thomas joined the [[W3C|World Wide Web Consortium]]'s staff to focus more on the technical side of the net. He now serves as W3C's Security Activity Lead and is involved in the European PrimeLife and PrivacyOS projects.

Mr. Roessler has previously excused himself from discussing and influencing votes on issues related to ICANN's [[New gTLD Program|new gTLD program]] as per a 2011 conflict of interests policy. He excused himself from a vote in December 2011, but as of February 2012, he was once again voting on issues related to new gTLDs.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/seven-icann-directors-have-new-gtld-conflicts/ Seven ICANN Directors Have New gTLD Conflicts]</ref>

Mr. Roessler was the chair of the [[DNSO]] when it disbanded, following the membership renunciation of the [[ccTLD]] managers that resulted in the creation of the [[ccNSO]] and the DNSO's replacement, the [[GNSO]]. In his farewell email, Thomas wrote, "At some point of time between 9:10 and 9:40 a.m. Amsterdam time on Sunday [15 December 2002], the DNSO ceased to be (and will, perhaps not unlike a phoenix from the ashes, become the GNSO).." His entire farewell email can be found [http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga/Arc11/msg01325.html here].

His most recent reappearance in the ICANN world was as the TLG member of the 2006 [[Nominating Committee]]. He'll be back in another role, starting at the end of the Cairo meeting.

*Director at [[World Wide Web Foundation]]

*Security Activity Lead at W3C.<ref>[http://lu.linkedin.com/in/roessler linkedin]</ref>

* Technical Liaison Group's Non-Voting Liaison to the Board of Directors at ICANN

*Researcher at University of Bonn.<ref>[http://lu.linkedin.com/in/roessler linkedin]</ref>