[Ecommerce] US E-Commerce Roundatable

[Hans Klein]

I think this is an excellent idea.  E-commerce affects lots of groups, and
the definition of a single monthly forum for information exchange and
coordination will provide an excellent service.  The non-profit community
needs to coordinate more;  this will be a step in that direction.

Hans Klein
CPSR


At 09:20 AM 2/18/00 -0500, James Love wrote:
>Jeff Chester and were talking about possible next steps on the
>e-commerce front, and one idea was to begin a US e-commerce roundtable,
>like the old US Telecommunications Policy Roundtable (TPR).  Something
>with no real governing body or structure, but that would provide a
>monthly forum for a brown bag lunch discussion of various e-commerce
>issues, including things like debates or invitations to government
>officials.  I would recommend stealing the old TPR meeting time, which
>was the first tuesday of every month.  I also like the old TPR system of
>rotating chairs for meetings.  
>
>About the only thing we would need to get going on this would be an
>initial announcement, and some agreement on who would provide the
>secretariat services.  For TPR, CME provided the secretariat, and I
>think everyone would agree, did a great job on this.  
>
>CPT has hired Vergil Bushnell to work on ecommerce, and he could provide
>the part time secretariat services for an e-commerce roundtable.  But if
>any other group has the capacity and interesting in doing this, we would
>enjoy using Vergil for other things, so we are flex on this point.  
>
>Regular meetings would help us further articulate key issues and
>potential strategies on these evolving issues, including access to
>broadband Internet connections (cable and xDSL), jurisdiction of law in
>cyberspace, digital signatures, UCTIA, consumer protection, copyright
>and other intellectual property disputes and privacy. 
>
>  Jamie
>
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