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Web Regulatory Nonprofit Board Member Sounds Off.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2001

By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 1--SAN JOSE, Calif.--To some, Karl Auerbach is a cyber-Robin Hood, underdog crusader for the free and unfettered Internet. To others, he is an acid-tongued critic, wannabe cult figure who advocates the overturn of law and order on the Web.

Auerbach, a former Cisco engineer from Santa Cruz, has become a lightning rod in the stormy debate over who controls the arcane but crucial system for guiding users around the Internet.

There is little that's ordinary about Auerbach, one of 19 board members of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers -- an international non-profit organization charged by the U.S. Department of Commerce with keeping...

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