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<h1><img alt="Portrait of Rigo" src="rigo2.jpg" /> Rigo Wenning</h1>
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<h3 id="tasks">My work @ W3C</h3>
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<ol>
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<li><h4>Legal Counsel</h4>
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<p>As <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym>'s Legal
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Counsel I give advice to the management on most legal aspects of the
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Consortium's operations. This includes contractual relationsships,
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licensing, consulting in legal matters, strategy planning and steering of
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litigation. By default, W3C's Legal Counsel is also the chair of all Patent
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Advisory Groups created. Patent Advisory Groups address issues created by
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essential patent claims reading on W3C Technologies. </p>
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<li><h4>Privacy Activity Lead</h4>
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<p>I am also <a href="../../Privacy/Overview.html">W3C's Privacy Activity
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Lead</a>. I was staff contact for <a href="../../P3P/Overview.html">P3P</a>
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from 1999 until 2006. <a href="../../TR/P3P11/">P3P 1.1 is now published as
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a Working Group Note</a>, but work on privacy continues. I coordinated
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W3C's efforts in European privacy research, namely in the <a
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href="https://www.prime-project.eu/">PRIME Project</a> (2004-2008) and the
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<a href="http://www.primelife.eu/">PrimeLife Project</a> (2008-2011). I
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organized several Workshops on Privacy: </p>
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<ul>
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<li>2006: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2006/07/privacy-ws/">W3C Workshop on
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Languages for Privacy Policy Negotiation and Semantics-Driven
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Enforcement</a></li>
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<li>2009: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2009/policy-ws/">W3C Workshop on
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Access Control Application Scenarios</a></li>
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<li>2010: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/policy-ws/">W3C Workshop on
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Privacy and data usage control</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>I was involved in the organization of the following Workshops</p>
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<li>2010: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/">W3C Workshop
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on Privacy for Advanced Web APIs</a></li>
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<li>2011: <a href="http://www.w3.org/2011/track-privacy/">W3C Workshop on
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Web Tracking and User Privacy</a></li>
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</ul>
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<p>I tried to clarify my position with a <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2010/api-privacy-ws/papers/privacy-ws-37.html">paper
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to the API Workshop</a>. But evidently this does not cover all aspects of
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Privacy on the Web. </p>
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</li>
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<li><h4>European governmental relations</h4>
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<p>In Europe, there is a roundtable of standardization organizations called
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the Information and Communication Technologies Standards Board <a
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href="http://www.ictsb.org/">(ICTSB)</a>. I'm the official representative
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of <acronym title="World Wide Web Consortium">W3C</acronym> at the <acronym
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title="Information and Communication Technologies Standards Board">ICTSB</acronym>.
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This implies multiple relationsships to the <acronym
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title="Recognized European Standardization Organizations">ESOs </acronym>:
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<a href="http://www.cen.eu/cenorm/homepage.htm"><acronym
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title="Comité Européen de Normalisation">CEN</acronym></a>, <a
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href="http://www.cenelec.org/Cenelec/Homepage.htm"><acronym
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title="Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique">CENELEC</acronym></a>
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& <a href="http://www.etsi.org/home_a.htm"><acronym
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title="European Telecommunications Standards Institute">ETSI</acronym></a>
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and to the <a href="http://ec.europa.eu/index_en.htm">European
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Commission</a>. Recently, I participated in an EU Study on the specific
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policy needs for ICT standardisation as a member of the Steering Group. The
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study let to a <a
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href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/files/ict/policy/standards/whitepaper_en.pdf">whitepaper</a>.
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The whitepaper was the basis for a <a
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href="http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/european-standards/standardisation-policy/index_en.htm">legal
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package</a> for the renovation of the standardization system in Europe.</p>
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</li>
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<li><h4>Policy Analysis</h4>
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<p>Finally, I'm doing some policy analysis for the Technology & Society
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Domain, looking at background information and discussing strategies. </p>
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</li>
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<h3 id="contact">Contact information</h3>
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<dt>Email:</dt>
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<dd><a href="mailto:rigo@w3.org" rel="foaf:mbox">rigo@w3.org</a> </dd>
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<dt>Postal address:</dt>
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<dd><strong><a href="http://www.ercim.org/" class="fn org url"><abbr
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title="European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics">ERCIM</abbr></a></strong>
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<br />
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<p><span class="street-address">2004, route des Lucioles</span><br />
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<span class="extended-address">BP 93</span><br />
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<span class="postal-code">06902</span> <span
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class="locality">Sophia-Antipolis</span> Cedex <br />
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<strong class="country-name">France</strong></p>
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<dt>PGP/GPG:</dt>
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<dd>My <a rel="wot:pubkeyAddress" href="rigokey.html">GnuPGP key and
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signature</a> is available on-line.</dd>
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</dl>
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<h3 id="bio">Short Bio</h3>
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<p>I studied Law at the University of Saarland (Germany) and Nancy II(France)
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and passed the first german law state examination 1992 in Saarbrücken.
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Subsequently, in german law studies, there is an extensive internship that I
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accomplished from 1992 - 1995. During this time, I was also a research
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assistant to the <a href="http://witz.jura.uni-saarland.de/index-fr.htm">chair
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of french civil law of Prof. Dr. Claude Witz</a> mainly focusing on
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International Civil Law, French Law and with a certain interest for <q>Droit
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local</q>, a mixture of french and old german law in the departements of Alsace
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and Moselle. In parallel, I was working with the <a
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href="http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/">Law Web Saarbrücken</a>, one of the very
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early law related portals. I'm still involved in this project. This forced me
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into the legal issues of the Internet which turned into the center of my
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interest. After the second state examination, I moved on to the Institute for
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penal law and worked on arbitration, mediation and data protection. <br />
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Beginning of 1997 I moved on to the <a
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href="http://rechtsinformatik.jura.uni-sb.de/en/index.html">Institute of Law
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and Informatics</a> thus combining my education on international law with the
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international legal issues of the Internet. One of the last projects I was
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involved with for the Institute of Computing and Law was the web site of
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Germany's <a href="https://www.bverfg.de/en/index.html">Federal Constitutional
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Court</a>. <br />
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I joined W3C in 1999 with a focus on Privacy, Security and European
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governmental affairs. While the initial work was mostly technical, my law
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background became more and more useful to the Consortium over time. In 2006
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I became W3C's staff counsel and in 2007 the Legal counsel. </p>
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<h3 id="out">Dormant or out of area Interests</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><h4>Security</h4>
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<p>As data protection in the initial sense also includes data security, I
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cover sometimes <a href="http://www.w3.org/Security/">Thomas Roessler from
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the Security Activity</a> if he is not available. My initial interest was
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the securing of documents from a legal point of view. The paper-society
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secures documents with hand-written signatures. I followed most of the
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evolution in this area and was an observer to ETSI TC ESI since 1999. </p>
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<p>My main interest in Security slided from this initial crypto-centered
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securing of documents to the notion of identity and trust. In fact, the
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work on P3P raised many issues around <q>Identity</q> and P3P 1.1 contains
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a revised chapter about identity and identification. Now, we see social
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networking sites, things like FOAF and the systematic googling of persons
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before a decision is made about them. This raises many issues if one takes
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the human rights question into account. So allowing people to express and
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trade trust on the one hand and still permit some privacy and right to be
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left alone is a challenge. My main interest in this area is to leverage the
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Semantic Web to address this field of constant tension between opposite
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goals. </p>
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<li><h4>Rights Management</h4>
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<p>DRM is and will remain a hot topic simply because there is so much money
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involved in content creation, trading and distribution. It is clear that in
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an information society, the decision on content distribution is a decision
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on power in this society. DRM is just another constraint to the information
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flow, like privacy and access control. So there is some communalities with
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data protection. Like in the trust/reputation scenario, the evaluation of
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social consequences of a certain type of technology is of prime interest to
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me. Today's DRM systems default to <q>closed</q> and it is a large effort
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for the content provider to give a liberal license. This shows the bias in
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design caused by the angry requirements of a certain industry. But for me,
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Creative Commons is DRM too as it carries special semantics Now you might
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understand that issues related to Security and to Privacy lead to some
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interest into <acronym
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title="Digital Rights Management">DRM</acronym>. I kept an eye
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on DRM after the successful organization of a <a
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href="http://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/">DRM Workshop for W3C in 2001</a>
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(that still is a landmark IMHO).</p>
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<h3>Outline</h3>
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<li><a href="#tasks">My Work @ W3C</a></li>
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<li><a href="#contact">Contact Info</a></li>
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<li><a href="#bio">Short Bio</a></li>
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</ul>
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<h3>Interesting personal links</h3>
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/P3P/">Privacy @ W3C</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.w3.org/2004/pp/">Patent Policy</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.jura.uni-sb.de/">Juristisches Internetprojekt
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Saarbrücken</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://lawgical.jura.uni-sb.de">Lawgical</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://www.fitug.de">FITUG e.V.</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://admi.net">Adminet</a></li>
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<address>
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Contact: <a href="mailto:rigo@w3.org">Rigo Wenning</a><br />
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Last updated: 14 May 2007
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