WG Chair Biographies

Leo has been involved with Internet operations and unique identifiers since the late 1990s. He currently runs And Polus LLC, which provides bespoke services to Internet infrastructure organisations. Previously, he managed Internet Number Resources in ICANN's IANA team, and registration services at the RIPE NCC.

Through participation in RIPE and IETF, Leo is the author of several RIPE documents and a handful of RFCs dealing with Internet Number Resources.

Alex lives in Amsterdam and currently works as Principal Engineer at Ting Fiber, a FTTH ISP. Since the late 1990s he has had similar roles in several small and large scale organisations and has in the past worked at the RIPE NCC's Registration Services.

Besides a free and open internet Alex strongly supports its self-regulating nature.

Franziska (also going by 'rhalina') joined the RIPE community during her time as an Internet Measurement researcher and chose to stick around. Over the years she worked with the RIPE PC, the RIPE Code of Conduct Team, the Debian and the DENOG community.

Professionally, she helps keep clouds flying at SAP cloud infrastructure.