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Former Swedish Leader Seeks Ideas for Board in Charge of Internet Addresses.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2001
By Mary Anne Ostrom, San Jose Mercury News, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 14--Here's a little-known fact that should give people new appreciation for the complexities of regulating the Internet: The leader of a group rethinking Internet governance spends his spare time advising the United Nations -- on the Balkans.
Carl Bildt, a former Swedish prime minister, came to Silicon Valley on Monday seeking ideas for the future of another strife-ridden domain: the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
"There are disagreements at ICANN, but we rarely kill each other," Bildt said as he prepared to attend a public forum in Mountain View on ICANN.
ICANN is a 3-year-old autonomous creation of the U.S. Department...
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