FC: Nortel Networks chat 2 pm Tues; EFF forum at Stanford on 10/5

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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Some politechnicals wrote in to tell me that they posted their responses 
about an online presidential debate here (I forwarded this item last week):
http://www.cluebot.com/article.pl?sid=00/10/02/1349233&mode=nested

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I'm participating in an online Nortel Networks Insider forum at 2 pm ET 
today. I think you can go to the forum here:
http://www93.nortelnetworks.com/insider/forums-login.jtmpl
First you must sign up here:
http://www93.nortelnetworks.com/insider/register.jtmpl
If you don't want to sign up (and give personal info), the chat will be 
archived in a public area of the site that does not require registration.

> Talk politics and the 'Net with Wired News' D.C. bureau chief, Declan 
> McCullagh, today at 2 p.m. ET in a free online expert forum sponsored by 
> the Nortel Networks Insider.  Come with questions to ask Declan, or just 
> stop by to view the discussion in real-time.
>
> Bottom line? We're giving you a chance to get your $ .02 into the 
> conversation currently taking place on the pages of leading national 
> industry publications.
>
> This forum is one in a series of expert forums sponsored by The Insider, a 
> Nortel Networks site designed for service providers and other telecom 
> industry players.  Other forums have included events with John Perry 
> Barlow and David Weinberger.  Insider membership is free but required to 
> participate in the live chat.
>
> For more information on the Declan McCullagh forum, click here:
> <http://www93.nortelnetworks.com/insider/promotions/declan.html>http://www93.nortelnetworks.com/insider/promotions/declan.html 
>
>
> Sign up for a free Insider membership at:
> <http://www93.nortelnetworks.com/insider/register.jtmpl>http://www93.nortelnetworks.com/insider/register.jtmpl 

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> From: "Katina Bishop" <katina () eff org>
> To: <declan () well com>
> Subject: EFF webcasts monthly forum "BayFF" from Stanford tonight on ICANN 
> elections
> Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 15:32:48 -0700
> Organization: EFF
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
>
> Hi Declan,
>
> Could you please post this media announcement and webcast link to the
> politech site?  Now that we're webcasting the event, (this is the first
> webcast) it's much more relevent to the politech audience.  Sorry for the
> late notice.  Our IP address was just formally confirmed. Thanks Declan!
>
> Best,
>
> Katina
>
>
> Webcast link:
> rtsp://video.eclipsnow.com/encoder/BayFF1
>
> Media Advisory
>
> BayFF Explores Internet Naming Body
> Barbara Simons, Emerson Tiller and Karl Auerbach Gear Up for ICANN Board
> Elections
>
> WHO: Electronic Frontier Foundation, Barbara Simons, Emerson Tiller and
> Karl Auerbach
>             Intermission music provided by UKUSA of VirtualRecordings.com
> WHAT: `BayFF' Meeting on ICANN Elections
> WHEN: Thursday October 5th, 2000 at 7:30PM
> WHERE: Stanford Law School, room 290
>
> In honor of its 10th Anniversary of defending civil liberties online, EFF
> presents a series of monthly meetings to address important issues where
> technology and policy collide. These meetings, entitled "BayFF," kicked off
> on July 10th and will continue throughout the year. The upcoming BayFF will
> explore the global election to select five of the nineteen directors of the
> Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a U.S.
> corporation contracted to manage the Internet's address assignment.
> Candidates Barbara Simons, Emerson Tiller and Karl Auerbach will discuss the
> issues in the election and the concerns raised by monitoring groups over the
> manner in which it's been organized. The election, which closes on October
> 10th, is the first attempt to a hold a global election on the Internet.
>
> Barbara Simons was ACM President from July 1998 until June 2000. ACM is the
> oldest and largest scientific and educational computer society in the world,
> with about 80,000 members internationally. Prior to becoming ACM President,
> Simons founded and chaired ACM's U.S. Technology Policy Committee (USACM),
> and the ACM Committee for Scientific Freedom and Human Rights. Simons was
> elected Secretary of the Council of Scientific Society Presidents (CSSP) in
> 1999, and she has been on the CSSP Board since 1998. She has been a member
> of the U.C. Berkeley Engineering Fund Board of Directors since 1998. Simons
> is a Fellow of ACM and of the American Association for the Advancement of
> Science.
>
> Simons earned her Ph.D. in computer science from U.C. Berkeley; her
> dissertation solved a major open problem in scheduling theory. She became a
> Research Staff Member at IBM's San Jose Research Center (now Almaden), where
> she did research on scheduling theory, compiler optimization, and fault
> tolerant distributed computing. Simons currently serves on the President's
> Export Council's Subcommittee on Encryption, and she had been a member of
> the Information Technology Working Group of the President's Council on the
> Year 2000 Conversion.
>
> Emerson Tiller is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin where he
> co-directs the Center for Business, Technology and Law. Dr. Tiller
> researches,
> writes, and teaches about Internet issues, including those relating to the
> ICANN and the Internet domain name system. He has received grants to study
> Internet issues from the National Academy of Science and the Society for
> Information Management. He has published in the most prestigious academic
> journals in his field, including the Yale Law Journal, the Columbia Law
> Review,
> the Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of Strategic Information
> Systems.
>
> As editor of the publication Internet Law and Business, Dr. Tiller
> reviews, summarizes, and comments upon the major ICANN decisions involving
> domain name disputes. He received his math and law degrees from Indiana
> University, and his Ph.D. from Berkeley. Dr. Tiller is also the founder of
> icannVote.com, a public information website explaining ICANN issues and
> assisting in registration of ICANN members.
>
> Karl Auerbach is senior researcher in the Advanced Internet Architecture
> group in the Office of the Chief Strategy Officer at Cisco Systems.
> Mr. Auerbach is presently engaged in research projects aimed at
> reducing the costs associated with installing, operating, troubleshooting,
> and managing networks. His recent work has also included real-time
> transport of high quality audio and video over the net, content management,
> IP multicast, and quality of service. In addition to his technical work,
>
> Mr. Auerbach has been an attorney in California since 1978. He is currently
> a member of the Intellectual Property Section of he California State Bar.
> Mr. Auerbach's work on Internet technology started in the early 1970's.
> He has been a long-time member of the Internet Engineering Task Force
> (IETF), has founded both Epilogue Technology Corporation and Empirical
> Tools and Technologies, Inc. and has been closely involved with several
> other startups. He is the co-founder of the Boston Working Group and
> has been involved in the issue of Internet governance for several years.
>
> **** You can subscribe to EFF's mailing list to receive the
> regular BayFF annoucements. To subscribe, email <majordomo () eff org>
> and put this in the text (not the subject line): subscribe BayFF.
>
> The Electronic Frontier Foundation (http://www.eff.org) is the leading
> civil liberties organization working to protect rights in the digital world.
> Founded in 1990, EFF actively encourages and challenges industry and
> government to support free expression, privacy, and openness in the
> information society. EFF is a member-supported organization and
> maintains one of the most-linked-to Web sites in the world.
>
> Contact:
> John Marttila
> Electronic Frontier Foundation
> 415-436-9333 ex 107

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