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[FYI] Get ready for a shake-up: Radical Karl Auerbach just got elected to the Internet's top governing body.
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- Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 20:35:02 +0200
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http://www.salon.com/tech/view/2000/10/16/auerbach/print.html
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ICANN-oclast
Get ready for a shake-up: Radical Karl Auerbach just got elected to
the Internet's top governing body.
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By Damien Cave
Oct. 16, 2000 | For the past two years, Karl Auerbach has made a
hobby of criticizing ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers. He has called the Net's controlling authority over
domain names everything from inept to "an organ of the trademark
lobby." But on Tuesday the 50-year-old "wild-eyed radical," as he
often calls himself, became part of that which he loathes: one of
five new members of ICANN's board of directors.
[...]
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