IP: Invitation to EFF Reception at OECD

[Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

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> Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:01:20 -0700
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> From: Tara Lemmey <tara () eff org>
> Subject: Invitation to EFF Reception at OECD
>
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation
> cordially invites you to attend a reception
> to welcome participants of the
> Joint OECD-Private Sector Workshop
> on Electronic Authentication
> to Silicon Valley
>
> Wednesday, June 2, 1999
> 5:30-7:30 PM
> Crocker Garden, Stanford Law School
> Palo Alto, California
>
> Please respond by June 1
> to Andrea Chiang
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> Phone: 415.436.9333, x109
> Fax: 415.436.9993
> E-mail: andrea () eff org
>
>
> About the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy
>
> The Working Party on Information Security and Privacy of the Organisation
> for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is comprised of government
> and private sector representatives from OECD Member countries.  It has
> conducted work related to authentication for a number of years. Both the
> 1992 OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and the 1997
> OECD Guidelines on Cryptography Policy note the importance of data
> integrity and security in information and communications networks and
> systems.  The OECD Inventory of Approaches to Authentication and
> Certification in a Global Networked Society surveys activities in OECD
> Member countries related to authentication and certification on global
> networks, including laws, policies and initiatives in the public and
> private sectors, and at both the national and international level.  A
> Declaration on Authentication for Electronic Commerce adopted by Ministers
> at the Ottawa Ministerial Conference in October 1998 recognises the
> importance of authentication for electronic commerce and outlines a number
> of actions to promote the development and use of authentication
> technologies and mechanisms, including continuing work at the international
> level, together with business, industry and user representatives. Ministers
> declared their determination not to discriminate against the authentication
> approaches taken by other countries and to amend, where appropriate, the
> technology or media specific requirements in current laws or policies that
> might impede electronic commerce.
>
>
> Directions: http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/maps.html