Thomas Roessler
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| Email: | tlr [at] w3.org |
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| Blog: | [Roessler.Posterous.com Roessler.Posterous.com] |
| LinkedIn: |  [roessler Thomas Roessler]
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| Twitter: |  @roessler
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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.[1] 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 to the GNSO Council during that time. Thomas occasionally blogs about ICANN at No Such Weblog. He is currently a non-voting member of the ICANN Board, where he represents the Technical Liaison Group; he was elected at ICANN 42 in Dakar and stands to serve through the annual meeting of 2012.[2]
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 PrimeLife and PrivacyOS projects.
ICANN Board[edit | edit source]
Mr. Roessler has previously excused himself from discussing and influencing votes on issues related to ICANN's 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.[3]
Work[edit | edit source]
- Technology and Society Domain Leader at W3C
- Director at World Wide Web Foundation
- Security Activity Lead at W3C.[4]
Career History[edit | edit source]
- Technical Liaison Group's Non-Voting Liaison to the Board of Directors at ICANN
- Researcher at University of Bonn.[5]