[Ecommerce] More Roundtable Info

[Vergil Bushnell]

Hello all.
I would like to urge anyone interested in attending the first E-commerce
Roundtable meeting this Thurs, April 13 to contact me promptly. Several
people have already indicated that they will be attending. We would like
to know how many people plan on attending, so, if needed, a more
convenient date can be scheduled.

I apologize for the short notice. This will be the first in a series of
such Roundtable discussions, and I was a bit tardy organizing the
logistics and sending the message out. If you would like more detailed
information about the Roundtable, I have included Jamie's original email
(dated Feb. 18) explaining the background of this meeting. 

Please don't hesitate to call or email me with your questions/
confirmations.

Sincerely,

Vergil Bushnell
Consumer Project on Technology
email: vbushnell@cptech.org
phone: 202.387.8030

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Subject: 
             [Ecommerce] US E-Commerce Roundatable
        Date: 
             Fri, 18 Feb 2000 09:20:26 -0500
       From: 
             James Love <love@cptech.org>
 Organization: 
             http://www.cptech.org
         To: 
             ecommerce <ecommerce@venice.essential.org>



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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