[Ecommerce] Reminder- E-commerce Roundtable Meeting Tomorrow

[Vergil Bushnell]

What?: 3rd E-commerce Roundtable Meeting
Where?: US PIRG office, 2nd floor, 218 D St. SE, Washington DC
(202-546-9707)
When?: Tuesday, June 13, 12-2 PM

This Roundtable will be chaired by Ed Mierzwinski of US PIRG.

AGENDA:

Speaker/ Topic

1. Regina Vargo, Department of Commerce: E-commerce negotiations for the
proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)

2. Jeff Kovar, Department of State: Update on the Hague Convention on
Jurisdiction of Private Law

3. Jonathan Menes, Department of Commerce: Briefing on the July 20-22
APEC E-commerce Steering Group Meeting and Consumer Protection Workshop,
Bangkok, Thailand.

4. Margo Saunders, National Consumer Law Center: Briefing on the newly
passed Esign bill

5.  Sarah Deutsch,  Bell Atlantic: Verizonreallysucks.com domain name
dispute

6. Possibly, Jerry Mander and Sarah Anderson from the International
Forum on Globalization will be available to discuss their new Project on
Ecommerce

7. ICANN and creation of .xxx or .sex top level domains

DIRECTIONS:

The Roundtable will be located at U.S. PIRG's office (Phone
202-546-9707) on the 2nd floor, 218 D St, SE, Washington, DC. (right
next to a health club on a little park.) U.S. PIRG's office is 2 blocks
from the Capital South metro stop. The metro is on First street, turn
right off escalator and go down the hill half a block and turn left on
D--up the hill one and one-half blocks.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
For more information about the E-commerce Roundtable, please contact
Vergil Bushnell at
phone: 202-387-8030
email: vbushnell@cptech.org