Karl George Auerbach (born December 27, 1949 in Los Angeles, California) is a California attorney and internet protocol engineer who made many significant contributions to the development of the Internet, Internet governance and the commercialization of many internet technologies. Mr. Auerbach is also known for suing the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)—of which he was an elected board member—for refusing to share corporate records in 2002. ICANN controls the assignment of domain names and IP addresses. Profile Auerbach is Chief Technology Officer at InterWorking Labs, in Scotts Valley, California, which creates network testing and emulation products. Auerbach has been involved in Internet design since the early 1970s. He is a member of the Intellectual Property section of the California State Bar; on the board of directors of the Open Voting Consortium; a co-founder of the Boston Working Group, a public policy organization devoted to democratic Internet governance; and a member of the volunteer Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which develops and promotes Internet standards such as TCP/IP. Auerbach has testified about Internet protocols and policies before Congress on several occasions. In 2001, Auerbach was the Caltech-Loyola Law School Program for Law & Technology Yuen Fellow, speaking on the importance of internet governance. Mr. Auerbach was a founder of Epilogue Technology Corporation and developed the first commercial SNMP engine that was widely licensed and incorporated in network products. Epilogue was acquired by Integrated Systems. Mr. Auerbach founded Empirical Tools and Technologies, Inc. (ET&T), also known as Empirical Tools and Toys or ETNT, in 1991 which released Dr. Watson, the Network Detective's Assistant (DWTNDA), a low cost network analysis and diagnostic tool, in 1993. DWTNDA was intended to be an internet "buttset" (Lineman's handset). DWTNDA was intended to be a very portable, fast-to-start, fast-to-use unit to do network troubleshooting. DWTNDA received the LAN magazine Products of the Year award in 1994. ET&T was acquired. Mr. Auerbach was the editor of RFC 1001/1002, IETF full Internet Standards to provide a NetBIOS service over TCP. In keeping with the practices of the time, Mr. Auerbach listed himself as the editor, not the author, preferring to give recognition to all the contributors. In the March 1995 issue of LAN Magazine Mr. Auerbach wrote an article about network testing titled "Trouble-Busters: Does your TCP/IP stand for trouble on your network? Here are some insider tricks for diagnosing and repairing TCP/IP Networks." In 1995,