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GA-DIGEST         Thursday, February 15 2001         Volume 01 : Number 239

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:38:13 +0100
From: Harald Alvestrand <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [ga] Call for focus.....

At 21:01 14/02/2001 +1100, Dassa wrote:
>In the interest of getting an interim Chair into place and as this appears 
>to be the best proposal so far, I second this motion.

I move this motion be dismissed. (garg)

Unfortunately, the use of Joop's voting booth in the context of the GA has 
led to conflicts in the past. The alternate suggestion made is to use the 
same format as used for the previous chair nomination for the nomination stage.

We need a new rule for the election itself.

          Harald

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 22:00:06 +1100
From: "Dassa" <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [ga] Call for focus.....

As Joop's polling booth was used within the WG-Review and there were no major objections I had assumed it was acceptable to the GA.

Can we all have clarification on what the previous proceedure was please and then maybe a call for suggestions on how to develop the election proceedure.

Darryl (Dassa) Lynch.

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|>Harald Alvestrand
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|>
|>
|>At 21:01 14/02/2001 +1100, Dassa wrote:
|>>In the interest of getting an interim Chair into place and 
|>as this appears to be the best proposal so far, I second this motion.
|>
|>I move this motion be dismissed. (garg)
|>
|>Unfortunately, the use of Joop's voting booth in the context 
|>of the GA has led to conflicts in the past. The alternate suggestion made 
|>is to use the same format as used for the previous chair nomination for the 
|>nomination stage.
|>
|>We need a new rule for the election itself.

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:16:35 -0500
From: Jonathan Weinberg <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions

At 08:57 AM 2/14/2001 +0100, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>Since the GA does not have procedures on what a motion is, how it needs to 
>be proposed, whether it needs to be seconded and so on, I think this is 
>quite hard to answer.
>At the moment, there are 27 messages in my personal GA archive containing 
>the word "seconded".
>I think we do need to set up that procedures subgroup
[snip]

         Agreed.

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:35:43 -0600
From: Bruce James <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions-Robert's Rules

Here is the link to the Robert's Rules:

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc06/msg00336.html

I know it is too long. So I am open to suggestions. We do have to start
someplace.

Feel free to submit your own version....:)

/Bruce James
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From: "Harald Alvestrand" <[email-masked]>
To: "Jefsey Morfin" <[email-masked]>; <[email-masked]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 1:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions

At 03:45 14/02/2001 +0000, Jefsey Morfin wrote:
>At this stage I think it would be good if the Chair could tell us what
>motions are pending, seconded, acknowledged and when votes are to occur. I
>had personally one motion seconded, reworded by me in two motions as per
>Chair's suggestion and reworded into one motion maybe seconded by another
>member.

Since the GA does not have procedures on what a motion is, how it needs to
be proposed, whether it needs to be seconded and so on, I think this is
quite hard to answer.

At the moment, there are 27 messages in my personal GA archive containing
the word "seconded".

I think we do need to set up that procedures subgroup; I have heard no
response to my comments on the proposed Roberts' modifications from a while
ago; I guess it was lost in the noise.

>Joop is alluding to another pending motion on Chair nomination.
>If I am correct we are expecting also someone to initiate the really
>important motion: the election system to be used for the Chair.
>Jefsey
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:27:39 +0100
From: Harald Alvestrand <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions-Robert's Rules

At 09:35 14/02/2001 -0600, Bruce James wrote:
>Here is the link to the Robert's Rules:
>
>http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc06/msg00336.html
>
>I know it is too long. So I am open to suggestions. We do have to start
>someplace.

Could you then reply to my comments on that message, please?

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc06/msg00333.html

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:41:49 -0600
From: Bruce James <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions-Robert's Rules

>Are you volunteering?<

I will, up to a point.

There are several points that should be dropped. Voting needs a Time Limit
(x).

This should be a group effort.

/Bruce James
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Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 10:27 AM
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions-Robert's Rules

At 09:35 14/02/2001 -0600, Bruce James wrote:
>Here is the link to the Robert's Rules:
>
>http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc06/msg00336.html
>
>I know it is too long. So I am open to suggestions. We do have to start
>someplace.

Could you then reply to my comments on that message, please?

http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc06/msg00333.html

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:11:09 -0800
From: Kent Crispin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Call for focus.....

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 11:38:13AM +0100, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> At 21:01 14/02/2001 +1100, Dassa wrote:
> >In the interest of getting an interim Chair into place and as this appears 
> >to be the best proposal so far, I second this motion.
> 
> I move this motion be dismissed. (garg)
> 
> Unfortunately, the use of Joop's voting booth in the context of the GA has 
> led to conflicts in the past.  The alternate suggestion made is to use
> the same format as used for the previous chair nomination for the
> nomination stage. 
> 
> We need a new rule for the election itself.

I much prefer to use the on-list technique.  I believe we have a
requirement to use an email based system, in any case.

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:12:35 -0800
From: Kent Crispin <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions-Robert's Rules

On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:35:43AM -0600, Bruce James wrote:
> Here is the link to the Robert's Rules:
> 
> http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc06/msg00336.html
> 
> I know it is too long. So I am open to suggestions. We do have to start
> someplace.
> 
> Feel free to submit your own version....:)

I suggest that we follow the guidelines set down in the WG-D report, 
which is available in draft form, and should be final any day now...

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 11:07:24 -0600
From: Bruce James <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] Robert's Rules

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Here is the link to the WG-d ""Robert's Rules"". It has their discussion on
this topic.

http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-d/Arc00/threads.html

Most of the questions we may have, are already addressed, but not all were
resolved.

/Bruce James
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 20:17:48 +0100 (MET)
From: DNSO Secretariat <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] NC telecon 26 February, agenda

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[ cf. http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010226.NCtelecon-agenda.html ]

ICANN/DNSO

       DNSO Names Council Teleconference on 26 February 2001 - agenda
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14 February 2001.

This agenda was established according to the agenda procedures Version 4,
August 2000 proposed by the NC Intake Committee, and adopted by the NC for 3
months.

     Agenda NC 26 February 2001 (120 mins)

     Timeline
        o Prepared, approved and amended by the Intake Committee and the NC
          Chair
        o Deadline for supporting documents = 7 days before = 19 February

Date, time, phones and webcast

  1. The Names Council teleconference will be held on 26 February at the
     following time:

(13:00 LA, 16:00 New York, 22:00 CET, 6:00 next day Japan/Korea, 8:00 Melbourne)
     ------------------------------------------------------------
     Local time between November and end March, WINTER in the NORTH hemisphere
     ------------------------------------------------------------
     Reference (Coordinated Universal Time)     UTC         21:00
     ------------------------------------------------------------
     California, USA                            UTC-8+0DST  13:00
     Missouri, USA                              UTC-6+0DST  15:00
     Monterrey, Mexico                          UTC-6+0DST  15:00
     Washington DC, USA                   (EST) UTC-5+0DST  16:00
     St.Thomas, Virgin Islands                  UTC-4+0DST  17:00
     Santiago, Chile                            UTC-4+1DST  18:00 since 15 Oct
     Buenos Aires, Argentina                    UTC-3+0DST  18:00
     Nouakchott, Mauritania                     UTC+0+0DST  21:00
     London, United Kingdom                     UTC+0+0DST  21:00
     Brussels, Belgium                    (CET) UTC+1+0DST  22:00
     Barcelona, Spain                     (CET) UTC+1+0DST  22:00
     Frankfurt, Germany                   (CET) UTC+1+0DST  22:00
     Paris, France                        (CET) UTC+1+0DST  22:00
     Seoul, Korea                               UTC+9+0DST  06:00
     Tokyo, Japan                               UTC+9+0DST  06:00
     Melbourne, Australia                      UTC+10+1DST  08:00 since 27 Aug
     ------------------------------------------------------------
     The DST starts/ends on last Sunday of March (with some exceptions)
     ------------------------------------------------------------
     For other places see http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

  2. The teleconference bridge will be provided by Theresa Swinehart

  3. The NC will not be webcast due to budget constraints.

          Dial in number: (provided later)

          Passcode: (provided later)

          Conference leader: Ms Theresa Swinehart

          10 ports "listen only" will be reserved for remote
          participants

          The full participants are the 19 NC members as listed in
          http://www.dnso.org/constituency/ncmembers.html, DNSO
          Secretariat and ICANN Officers

          The conference Scribe will be Maca Jamin

Agenda and related documents

Philip Sheppard will be chairing the NC teleconference.

Schduled time for meeting -120 mins. Agenda accocated time - 115 mins.

  1. Approval of minutes of January. - 5 mins
        o http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/20010124.NCtelecon-minutes.html

  2. Consolidating existing NC procedures into one document - NC rule of
     procedure

     DECISION TO approve NC Rules of Procedure (Philip Shepherd) - 5 minutes

  3. Procedure regarding prolonged absences from NC meetings (Elisabeth
     Porteneuve) - 5 minutes

  4. Melbourne agenda - (Philip Sheppard) - 5 mins

  5. DECISION of NC to invite the GA to manage an election process to select
     a nominee for appointment by the NC to the position of Chair of the
     GA.- (Erica Roberts) - 10 mins

  6. New TLDs (ICANN staff) - 10 min
        o Update on negotiations on new TLDs and explanation of means of
          charter enforcement

  7. Non-commercial constituency - results and implications of the
     constituency vote on four resolutions made at the constituency's Marina
     del Rey meeting. (Dany Vandromme) - 10 mins
        o http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc04/msg00618.html
          (2-UDRP)
        o http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc04/msg00619.html (4-new
          TLDs)
        o http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc04/msg00620.html
          (5-sunrise)
        o http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/council/Arc04/msg00621.html
          (7-freedom of speach)

  8. ccTLDs - report on issues arising from the 2001 Hawai and Geneva
     meetings - (Elisabeth Porteneuve) - 15 mins

  9. Streamlining - DECISION on closure of working groups that have
     completed their task (A, B, C) and use of their e-mail lists - (Philip
     Sheppard) - 10 mins.

 10. WG D - final report, use for Review process and next steps - (Philip
     Sheppard) - 10 mins

 11. WG E - next steps with final report - (YJ)- 10 mins

 12. Budget Committee update - (Roger Cochetti) - 10 mins

 13. Any new business

Next NC meeting will be held on 11 March 2001, in Melbourne
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                 Information from:  © DNSO Names Council

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:24:01 -0500
From: "Joanna Lane" <[email-masked]>
Subject: RE: [ga] Melbourne and nominations

Is this an offer?
Joanna

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To: Roberto Gaetano
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Subject: Re: [ga] Melbourne and nominations

Roberto, Greg and all remaining assembly members,

 What's the matter with you guys, don't you have your own funding to
attend meetings?

Roberto Gaetano wrote:

> Greg,
>
> >
> >The funding for travel to Melbourne that I hoped for has just fallen
> >through, so if attendance is a requirement for the chair, I'll have to
> >withdraw my acceptance of the nomination.
>
> Sorry to hear that the funding has not been granted, but let me suggest to
> keep your acceptance of the nomination, at least until we don't have a
> clearer picture of the timeframes.
>
> It would be interesting though if we could use this chance to discuss the
> issue of funding of the GA Chair (or co-chair) to the ICANN meetings, as
we
> cannot assume that the GA physical meetings could run chairless.
> For instance, would it be reasonable to ask funding by the DNSO?
> Of course, this cannot happen for Melbourne, but maybe if we start to
> scratch our heads now it can be done for Stockholm.
>
> Incidentally, to have geographical diversity between chair and co-chair
may
> ensure better coverage of geographically diverse meetings ;>)
>
> Regards
> Roberto
>
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 12:47:18 -0700
From: Greg Burton <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions-Robert's Rules

At 11:12 AM 2/14/01, Kent Crispin wrote:
>I suggest that we follow the guidelines set down in the WG-D report,
>which is available in draft form, and should be final any day now...

Kent,

For clarification purposes, do you mean particularly section 4.0 through 
4.3 and section 8 in it's entirety? I could certainly see modifying the 
rest of it to suit the GA, rather than being WG-specific, but I want to be 
sure we're talking about the same things here. If that IS what you mean, it 
sounds good to me.

Regards,
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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 21:08:32 +0100
From: Harald Alvestrand <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions-Robert's Rules

At 10:12 14/02/2001 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 09:35:43AM -0600, Bruce James wrote:
> > Here is the link to the Robert's Rules:
> >
> > http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-full/Arc06/msg00336.html
> >
> > I know it is too long. So I am open to suggestions. We do have to start
> > someplace.
> >
> > Feel free to submit your own version....:)
>
>I suggest that we follow the guidelines set down in the WG-D report,
>which is available in draft form, and should be final any day now...

Kent,
do you have an URL to the draft report (if it is freely available)?

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:22:57 -0500 (EST)
From: Jonathan Weinberg <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Motions-Robert's Rules

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
> At 10:12 14/02/2001 -0800, Kent Crispin wrote:
> >[snip]
> >I suggest that we follow the guidelines set down in the WG-D report,
> >which is available in draft form, and should be final any day now...
> 
> Kent,
> do you have an URL to the draft report (if it is freely available)?

<http://www.dnso.org/wgroups/wg-d/Arc02/msg00000.html>

Jon

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 15:19:41 -0500
From: Sotiropoulos <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Call for focus.....

Kent Crispin wrote:

> > We need a new rule for the election itself.
>
> I much prefer to use the on-list technique.  I believe we have a
> requirement to use an email based system, in any case.
>

I fully agree with Kent!  The vote should be on-list, each of us voting publicly
through email.

Also, if anyone seconds it, I will accept Eric Dierker's nomination of myself for
Chair of the GA (after all, we should have as many candidates as possible).

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
        Hermes Network, Inc.

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:54:42 -0700
From: Greg Burton <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Call for focus.....

At 01:19 PM 2/14/01, Sotiropoulos wrote:
>I fully agree with Kent!  The vote should be on-list, each of us voting 
>publicly
>through email.

The procedure I believe Kent is referring to is located at 
http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2000.GA-ballot-outline.html. It's email 
based, but not onlist or public.

>Also, if anyone seconds it, I will accept Eric Dierker's nomination of 
>myself for
>Chair of the GA (after all, we should have as many candidates as possible).

I'll be happy to second it. Does this mean you don't think everyone should 
drop the DNSO issues and run off to atlarge as you were advocating last week?

Regards,
Greg

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 14:10:06 -0800
From: "Bret A. Fausett" <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] The Senate Subcommittee Hearing

For anyone who missed it, I've made an mp3 of this morning's hearing before
the Communications Subcommittee of the U.S. Senate's Commerce Committee
available here:
 
    http://www.lextext.com/senate02142001.html

Links to the written submissions of those who testified and other
contributors is here:

    http://www.senate.gov/~commerce/issues/telco.htm#Hearings

       -- Bret

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 18:51:27 -0500
From: Sotiropoulos <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Call for focus.....

Greg Burton wrote:

> At 01:19 PM 2/14/01, Sotiropoulos wrote:
> >I fully agree with Kent!  The vote should be on-list, each of us voting
> >publicly
> >through email.
>
> The procedure I believe Kent is referring to is located at
> http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2000.GA-ballot-outline.html. It's email
> based, but not onlist or public.

Too bad.  Perhaps, it should be.

> >Also, if anyone seconds it, I will accept Eric Dierker's nomination of
> >myself for
> >Chair of the GA (after all, we should have as many candidates as possible).
>
> I'll be happy to second it. Does this mean you don't think everyone should
> drop the DNSO issues and run off to atlarge as you were advocating last week?

I don't believe I said anything about "dropping" the DNSO issues Greg.  I'd like
for you to point out that explicit statement, if you may.  The gist of my
argument, as I recall, was that while so much emphasis is being placed on the
DNSO by ICANN et al., there should also be an equal corollary interest in the
organization and structure of the AtLarge.  I was curious as to why no such
officially-sanctioned moves were being made.  Aren't you?

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
        Hermes Network, Inc.

P.S.  thanks for the seconding!

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 17:34:54 -0700
From: Greg Burton <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: [ga] Call for focus.....

At 04:51 PM 2/14/01, Sotiropoulos wrote:
>Greg Burton wrote:
> > The procedure I believe Kent is referring to is located at
> > http://www.dnso.org/dnso/notes/2000.GA-ballot-outline.html. It's email
> > based, but not onlist or public.
>
>Too bad.  Perhaps, it should be.

The GA adopted those rules *shrug*

> > Does this mean you don't think everyone should
> > drop the DNSO issues and run off to atlarge as you were advocating last 
> week?
>
>I don't believe I said anything about "dropping" the DNSO issues 
>Greg.  I'd like
>for you to point out that explicit statement, if you may.

On 01:40 PM 2/10/01, Sotiropoulos said:
>How about we altogether focus on the @Large instead?

Seems pretty clear to me......note that you did say "instead"

Regards,
Greg

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Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 19:37:08 -0500
From: Sandy Harris <[email-masked]>
Subject: [ga] [Fwd: Register now for CFP2001]

Methinks many here might consider this conference.
I went for the first time last year, and found it excellent.

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Subject: Register now for CFP2001
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 00:00:46 -0800 (PST)
From: Computers <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]

REGISTER NOW for CFP2001!

www.cfp2001.org

CFP2001: The Eleventh Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy.
March 6 - 9, 2001, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

REGISTER for CFP2001!  Early fees deadline is February 18, 2001.
Reserve your hotel room.  Reduced rate deadline is February 15,
2001.

      http://www.cfp2001.org/php/control/main.php?l1=3D2

Just like you, each CFP is unique.  CFP2001 will never come again.
Come hear from, mix and mingle with the denizens of the cyberworld:
Dave Banisar, Scott Bradner, Stefan Brands, Jason Catlett, Lorrie
Cranor, Simon Davies, Lenny Foner, Mike Godwin, Ian Goldberg, Austin
Hill, Deborah Hurley, Jamie Love, Rebecca Mercuri, Peter Neumann,
Stephanie Perrin, Ron Rivest, Adam Shostack, Barbara Simons, Richard
Smith, Barry Steinhardt, Maurice Wessling, Coralee Whitcomb, Phil
Zimmermann, and many, many others.

What will they be talking about?

CFP PROGRAM OVERVIEW

At CFP2001, there will be tutorials, plenary sessions, lunch
breakout sessions, awards ceremonies, and birds-of-a-feather
sessions.

* Tutorials.* The tutorials are three-hour sessions, which will be held
on Tuesday, March 6.  Tutorial topics include: Free Speech and the
Constitution in Cyberspace, Introduction to Cryptography, Click Here
for the Revolution: Secrets of NGO Advocacy, Chief Privacy Officer
Training Session:  Roles and Responsibilities, National and
International Rules Relating to Domain Names and Trademarks: What Are
They and How Do They Apply?

* Plenary Sessions.*  The conference plenary sessions will be held on
Wednesday - Friday, March 7 - 9. Plenary sessions include:  Privacy
Debate, Gadgets That Spy, Cyber-crime and Cyber-rights:  The Council of
Europe Convention, The ICANN Election, The IETF Standards Landscape,
The Great Ballot Debate, Intellectual Property Debate, UCITA: Uniform
Computer Information Transactions Act, Chief Privacy Officers: Boon or
Boondoggle?, Carnivore, Through a Glass Darkly: The Opaque Nature of
International Rule Making - The Hague Convention and the G-8,
Information Technology in the Service of Human Rights, Super Bowl 2001
- -- The Game Was the Least Interesting Part.

* Breakout Sessions.* Lunch breakout sessions will be held on Wednesday
and Thursday, March 7 and 8. During the conference lunch breaks, there
will be a choice of breakout sessions on various hot topics including:
the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), What the Surveys Say
About the Public's Views on Privacy, Current Issues In Cryptography,
Reflections on the White House Privacy Office, Medical Privacy, PGP:
The First 10 Years, Electronic Access to Public Records in California,
Censorship and the Arts.

* BOFs.* The birds-of-a-feather sessions are a longstanding CFP
tradition. There will be an alphabet soup of cyberhappenings:  book
signings, Carnivore demos, cybercolonialism in the Hermitage Museum;
cypherpunks, debates, discussions, hearings, PGP key registries,
presentations, and more.

CFP 2001 RELATED EVENTS

* The Tenth Annual International EFF Pioneer Awards.* In every field of
human endeavor, there are those dedicated to expanding knowledge,
freedom, efficiency, and utility. Many of today's brightest innovators
are working along the electronic frontier.  To recognize these leaders,
the Electronic Frontier Foundation established the Pioneer Awards for
deserving individuals and organizations.

      http://www.eff.org/awards/pioneer.html

* 3rd Annual U.S. Big Brother Awards - Privacy International.* Each
year, the members and affiliated organizations of Privacy International
present the "Big Brother" awards to the government and private sector
organizations in their countries which have done the most to threaten
personal privacy in their countries.  Awards are also given to
individuals and organizations which have made an outstanding
contribution to the protection of privacy.

      http://www.privacy.org/pi/bigbrother/

* The Activists Roundtable - Computer Professionals for Social
Responsibility.* Members and Friends of Computer Professionals for
Social Responsibility will meet at an Activists Roundtable at Bentley
College in Waltham, MA (outside of Boston, MA) on Sunday March 4, 2001
to share and plot our priorities for the year ahead.

      http://www.cpsr.org/conferences/roundtable.html

Today is Abraham Lincoln's birthday.  What would Honest Abe have had to
say about cyberspace, if he were alive today?  Perhaps something like
this:

"The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The
occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the
occasion.  As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew."

See you at CFP2001.

CFP News - February 12, 2001

ITEM:  Napster Messaging Used for Marketing
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/02/09/napster_parasites/print.html
Napster's messaging feature is increasingly used by bands or their
agents to promote their music, which some fans appreciate but which
others view as an intrusion; some companies are developing software
that can reach many more users simultaneously than can Napster's
built-in messaging feature..

ITEM:  Amazon "Honor System"
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-4723935.html
Amazon's new payment system allows partner sites to use its customer
database of 29 million and its "one-click" payment system to charge
small fees on the honor system or on a pay-per-view basis; the company
says it will not use the payment network to collect users'
information.

ITEM:  Cookies Shared Over Gnutella
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-4762138.html
Some Gnutella users are inadvertently making their browser cookies
available with the P2P service; Netscape cookies, which are stored in a
single file, are somewhat more vulnerable than are Internet Explorer
cookies, which are stored in multiple files.

ITEM:  Wireless Ethernet Flaws
http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2681947-2,00.html
FAQ:  http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html
Berkeley researchers identified flaws in the Wired Equivalent Privacy
algorithm used to protect transmissions over 802.11b wireless
networks.

ITEM:  "National Health Information Infrastructure"
http://library.northernlight.com/UU20010209190000067.html
The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics is expected to
issue recommendations by fall concerning a network to facilitate the
sharing of health information to improve medical treatment.  The
President's Information Technology Advisory Committee has also studied
the issue; both groups say their intention is not to collect personally
identifiable information but rather to use non-identifying data to get
a clearer picture of the state of health care and to enable patients to
share their own health profiles with their doctors.

ITEM:  Groups Seeks Delay in Medical Privacy Rules
http://library.northernlight.com/ED20010205240000026.html
The Confidentiality Coalition, comprised of 39 insurance companies,
drug manufacturers, and other health care industry organizations wrote
to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson protesting the
law approved at the end of President Clinton's term; the group says the
la s, which are to take full effect on February 26, 2003, could impede
the ability of people to fill needed prescriptions.

ITEM:  "Pass Face" Authentication
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-4760912.html
http://www.realuser.com
Real User, a startup whose investors include former ICANN chair Esther
Dyson, is developing an authentication system based on a username and
the correct selection of five "pass faces" from a series of five
matrices of possible faces.

ITEM:  House Resolution on Cyberterrorism
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/8/16803.html
http://www.washtech.com/cgi-bin/udt/WTW.PRINT.STORY?client=3Dwashtech-test&storyid=3D7416
Representatives James Saxton (NJ) and Saxby Chambliss (GA) introduced a
"sense of Congress" resolution that "designates cyberterrorism as an
emerging threat to the national security of the United States which has
the potentiality to cause great harm to the Nation's critical
electronic infrastructure" and calls for a study by the FBI, CIA, NSA
and Departments of Commerce and Defense.

ITEM:  Terrorists Exchange Information in Public Websites
http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/tech/2001-02-05-binladen.htm
http://www.latimes.com/print/20010208/t000011616.html
Osama bin Laden and others have been found to exchange messages, maps
and photographs used in planning terrorist attacks by encoding them in
messages posted to chat boards or in image files on pornographic
sites.

ITEM:  WIPO Declines To Transfer "dot-sucks" Domain to Trademark Holder
http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/html/2000/d2000-1015.html
In _Lockheed Martin Corporation v. Dan Parisi_ a majority of the WIPO
panel ruled that "both common sense and a reading of the plain language
of the [Uniform] Policy [for Domain Name Dispute Resolution] support
the view that a domain name combining a trademark with the word "sucks"
or other language clearly indicating that the domain name is not
affiliated with the trademark owner cannot be considered confusingly
similar to the trademark."

ITEM:  "Cybercourt" in Michigan
http://www.freep.com/money/tech/elaw7_20010207.htm
Governor John Engler's plan would include specially trained magistrates
to deal with IT-related issues, such as contracts and intellectual
property, and a "rocket docket" for fast consideration of
time-sensitive issues.

ITEM:  ICANN Criticized at Hearing
http://www.washtech.com/cgi-bin/udt/WTW.PRINT.STORY?client=3Dwashtech-test&storyid=3D7412
http://www.house.gov/commerce/hearings/telecom02082001.htm
Members of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce were critical of
the process by which new gTLDs were selected last year but did not
advocate reversing the decision, as some whose domain name proposals
were denied urged.  ICANN Chair Vint Cerf said ICANN would try to "find
more objective ways to make these decisions" and that an additional
round of new gTLDs could be created in as little as six months after
the seven recently selected names become operational.

ITEM:  ICANN NGO and Academic ICANN Study
http://www.cdt.org/dns/icann/nais/010207overview.shtml
The NAIS will review ICANN's governance policies and the conduct of
elections for at-large members; a final report will be released at the
June ICANN meeting in Stockholm.  NAIS members recently wrote to Carl
Bildt, head of ICANN's At-Large Membership Study Committee:
http://www.cdt.org/dns/icann/nais/010207bildt.shtml.

ITEM:  Internet Taxation Moratorium Extension Bill Reintroduced
http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A45514-2001Feb8?language=3Dprinter
http://cox.house.gov/nettax/
Senator Ron Wyden (OR) and Representative Christopher Cox (CA)
reintroduced their "Internet Tax Freedom Act" to extend the moratorium
for five years; the legislation was approved in the House last year by
a vote of 352-75 but no action was taken in the Senate.

ITEM:  FCC Chair Outlines Philosophy
http://www.zdnet.com/filters/printerfriendly/0,6061,2682906-2,00.html
http://www.washtech.com/cgi-bin/udt/WTW.PRINT.STORY?client=3Dwashtech-test&storyid=3D7328
Michael Powell emphasized deregulation, expressed skepticism about the
digital divide, and said that while "I think there is a lot of garbage
on television...I don't know that I think that my government is my
nanny."

ITEM:  Uncertainty About TV-distributed Internet
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41616,00.html
Companies such as Wavexpress and iBlast are testing the use of surplus
TV broadcast spectrum to deliver Internet access, but it is unclear
whether FCC rules governing television will also apply to the Internet
if accessed in this fashion.

ITEM:  Carnivore Name Change
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-202-4769965.html
The Illinois Institute of Technology, which last year reviewed
Carnivore for the DoJ, recommended the name change, to "DCS1000"
(digital collection system).

ITEM:  Congressional Privacy Congress To Study Web Bugs
http://www.internetnews.com/IAR/article/0,,12_584741,00.html
Beginning on March 1, the bipartisan group of senators and
representatives, co-chaired by Representative Joe Barton (TX) will
organize panels and forums and may propose legislation to deal with the
matter.

ITEM:  EEOC Sues To Stop Genetic Testing
http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A50520-2001Feb9?language=3Dprinter
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has gone to court to stop
Burlington Northern Santa Fe from testing employees for predisposition
to carpal tunnel syndrome.

ITEM:  British Insurer Admits Genetic Testing
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,2-80582,00.html
Under questioning from the House of Commons Science and Technology
Select Committee, Norwich Union Life admitted to testing some insurance
applicant for certain cancers and Alzheimer's disease.

ITEM:  DIA Alleges Possible Cuban Cyber-attack
http://www.wired.com/news/print/0,1294,41700,00.html
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=3D01/02/08/1638232
At a hearing of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the head of the
Defense Intelligence Agency, said that the Cuban military could employ
"asymmetric tactics" against U.S. forces, "using information warfare or
computer network attack...to be able to disrupt our access or flow of
forces to the region."

ITEM:  Open Source Processors
http://www.eetimes.com/printableArticle?doc_id=3DOEG20010201S0050
EE Times reports that support is slowly building for open source
processors such as the Leon-1, developed by the European Space Agency.
Metaflow Technologies and IROC Technologies are using the Leon-1, and
contract manufacturer Flextronics may adopt open processors as well.

ITEM:  Open Source Satellite Imagery
http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/nima_imagelinks_000531.html
The National Imagery and Mapping Agency is sponsoring the Open Source
Software Image Map project along with Imagelinks and the Florida
Institute of Technology; its progress will be assessed in October.

ITEM:  TopClick Private Search Engine
http://www.topclick.com/how_it_works.html
TopClick uses the Google engine but does not use cookies or banner ads;
its agreement with Google ensures that "Google cannot cookie your
requests because they are protected behind the TopClick identity."

ITEM: Group Urges Election Changes
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/05/politics/05STAT.html?pagewanted=3Dall=
http://nass.stateofthevote.org/pubs/pubs_electionres.html
The National Association of Secretaries of State's Election Standards
Task Force's "Election Reform Resolution" calls for four actions by
Congress and twelve actions by state and local officials, including to
"modernize the voting process as necessary, including voting machines,
equipment, voting technologies and systems and implement well-defined,
consistent standards for what counts as a vote throughout the election
process ensuring accurate vote counts and minimal voter error."

ITEM:  "eVillage"
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-nortel-dc.html?printpage=3Dyes
Nortel is contributing $5.6 million to the construction of the first
500 homes in a "wired community" near Fresno, CA, which will eventually
have 30,000 homes on 15,000 acres.

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