[1] He has also been a principal contributor to establishment of standards for registration of internationalized domain names.
[2] Karp has a PhD in musicology and is Associate Professor of Organology at Uppsala University in Sweden.
He was curator of the musical instrument collections at the Music Museum in Stockholm from 1973 to 1990, especially concerned with conservation, and rose to be the museum's Deputy Director during the 1980s.
He was at the Swedish Museum of Natural History 1990 until his retirement in 2014, first as Director of the Department of Information Technology and then as Director of Internet Strategy and Technology.
[3] Cary Karp has been the Director of Internet Strategy for ICOM.