[Ecommerce] US E-Commerce Roundatable

[A. Fielder]

Would be good if you folk can keep your scattered world-wide 
friends informed on main points of your discussions.

> 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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Anna Fielder
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