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ISC Meeting Notice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Thu Sep 25 10:32:55 1997
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 1997 08:39:30 -0400
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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From: "Michael S. Baum" <michael@verisign.com>
Subject: ISC Meeting Notice
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IMPORTANT - All attendees *must* respond with their intention to
participate. Because we are meeting in Federal buildings, the Capitol
police need a list of all attendees a week before the meeting. Anyone not
on the list will *not* be allowed in.
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MEETING NOTICE
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Please correspond with:
Michael S. Baum, Esq.
One Alewife Center, Suite 350
Cambridge, MA 02140 USA
V: +1 617.661.1234
F: +1 617.661.0716
E: michael@verisign.com
Subject: INFORMATION SECURITY COMMITTEE MEETING NOTICE - OCTOBER 16-18, 1997
Dear Committee Member and Prospective Members:
You are cordially invited to participate in a meeting of the Information
Security Committee, Section of Science & Technology, American Bar
Association, on Thursday-Saturday, October 16-18, 1997, in Washington DC.
The Committee will continue its advancement of public key infrastructure
legal and control issues, and will include further work on CA
accreditation, commercial key escrow guidelines, PKI evidentiary issues,
digital signature legislative initiatives, and CA / user liability, among
other matters.
Consistent with Section policy, ISC meeting participants must be members of
both the ABA and the ABA Section of Science and Technology. Please contact
Ann Kowalsky, Manager Section of Science & Technology, at ABA headquarters
in Chicago by phone: +1 (312)988.5599, fax: +1 (312)988.5628, or email:
sciencetech@abanet.org for membership information. You can become a paid
member of the ABA and the ISC at the October 16-18 meeting -- and affiliate
ABA membership is available for non-lawyers.
Meeting details appear below. I look forward to seeing you in Washington.
Sincerely,
Michael S. Baum
Chair, Information Security Committee
Section of Science & Technology, ABA
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INFORMATION SECURITY COMMITTEE
Section of Science & Technology, ABA
October 16-18, 1997
Agenda
(In extended sessions, breaks will be taken as needed.)
October 16, 1997 Thursday - Capitol Hill
8:30- 9:00 Greetings, administrative matters
9:00- 9:30 Introductions, meeting logistics, general announcements
9:30-10:30 Updates by Work Groups;
10:30-12:00 WG breakouts
12:00-13:00 Lunch with the Congressional Internet Caucus
13:00-17:00 WG breakouts
17:00-??? Watering hole discussions; possible continuation of WG meetings
October 17, 1997 Friday
8:30-09:00 Breakfast, et cetera
9:00-09:30 Administration Update-
Bruce McConnell, Office of Management and Budget
9:30-12:00 Breakout sessions; Legislative WG conference call
12:00-13:00 Lunch speakers: Judge B. Paul Cotter will speak on the
ANSI X.12 electronic filing standard
13:00-17:00 Breakout sessions
October 18, Saturday
8:30-09:00 Breakfast, et cetera.
9:00-12:00 WG wrap-ups;
12:00-13:00 Lunch speaker/Discussion
13:00-14:30 WG presentations
14:30-15:00 Path forward; wrap-up
Information Security Committee
Washington, DC MEETING DETAILS
October 16-18, 1997
Members are urged to participate in one of the work groups that will be
presenting/meeting during the ISC's meeting. Please contact Ruven Schwartz,
Esq. (Ruven.Schwartz@westgroup.com) for further information.
**Accreditation Work Group
Contacts:Chas Merrill, Esq. (cmerrill@concentric.net)
Rick Hornbeck (rhornbec@counsel.com)
Lynn McNulty (lynn.mcnulty@internetmci.com)
The Accreditation Work Group (About 50 technologists and attorneys in three
sections: Process, Technical Standards, and Legal and Business Standards)
will continue work on its draft document, "Accreditation: Evaluation of CAs
and PKI", with a view toward distributing a draft on the Internet for
industry comments shortly after the end of the year.
**Addendum Work Group
Contacts:Joseph Alhadeff, Esq. (jalhadeff@uscib.org)
Christine Axsmith (axsmith@dockmaster.ncsc.mil)
Robert Ball (rball@alston.com)
The Addendum Work Group will continue drafting a digital signature trading
partner agreement -- integrating the principles of the Digital Signature
Guidelines and current work on PKI and CA accreditation concerns, and
developing additional practical commentary for this model form of
electronic commerce agreement.
**Evidentiary Work Group
Contacts:Gary Fresen, Esq. (gary.w.fresen@bakernet.com)
Stan Kurzban, Esq. (kurzbans@acm.org) or
Serge Parisien, Esq. (parisise@droit.umontreal.ca)
The Evidentiary Work Group will continue its drafting of the judicial
tutorial and report on its coordination activities with record management
standards authorities. The working group members will also assist the
other working groups on their evidentiary issues.
**Key Recovery Work Group (KEWG)
Contacts:Emily Frye, Esq. (alton@erols.com)
Dwight Olson, Esq. (73522.3542@compuserve.com)
The KRWG concentrates its efforts in two ways. First, it monitors proposed
legislation and regulations, both here and abroad, that address key
recovery. The KRWG offers comments where it thinks they would be
appropriate. The KRWG's larger work is a document addressing the framework
and operation of a key recovery center. Work is in the advanced outline
stage and will focus on fleshing out draft text.
**Liability Work Group
Contacts:Maureen Adamache, Esq. (rmadama@magi.com)
Elise Reed (ereed@oldrepnatl.com)
The Liability Work Group will continue its work with the Accreditation
Group on the liability issues, including preparing liability policy
statements and also suitable clauses for inclusion in PKI/CA-user and
PKI/CA cross-certification agreements.
It will also continue its analyses of the liability of application software
providers, and for other (non-digital signature, non-confidentiality
encryption) applications of public key cryptography.
Finally, it will consider technical methods of solving the legal problem of
binding relying parties.
**Digital Signatures Laws & Regulations
Contacts:Kenneth Allen, Esq. (brsec.kallen@email.state.ut.us)
Dan Greenwood, Esq. (DGreenwood@state.ma.us)
Dale Juffernbruch, Esq. (usvcnwzb@ibmmail.com)
The Legislative and Regulatory Working Group will hold its periodic
conference call, to discuss updates to legislation and regulation regarding
electronic authentication. The Leg/Reg Working Group would also like to
continue to explore the relationship between legislation in this area and
accreditation of Certification Authorities; further pursue the evidentiary
effects of electronic authentication, and discuss litigation, to the extent
any exists.
The dress for the meeting is business attire.
First-time participants planning to attend the October 16-18 meeting must
contact Ruven Schwartz, ISC ViceChair, at 612-687-8095 or
Ruven.Schwartz@westgroup.com, to coordinate work-product contributions for the
upcoming meeting.
Meeting Location:
October 16:
The Capitol Building - room HC5
lunch - The Rayburn Building - room B369
October 17:
Transportation Dept 400 7th St SW (L'Enfant Plaza). Rooms 6244 - 6248
October 18:
Longworth House Office Building - Room 1539
Meals: There will be a $25 fee for lunch on Thursday (with the Internet
Caucus).
Lodging: Call Gibb Travel for discounted fares on local hotels (Loews
L'Enfant Plaza, Hyatt Regency Capitol, and others). They will have a range
of prices available, tell them if you have a specific price range in mind.
Mention the ABA Information Security Committee.
Gibb's number is 617-353-0595 or 800-541-9949
RSVP: Please confirm your intention to participate to Ann Kowalsky, Section
Manager, Section of Science and Technology (sciencetech@abanet.org) as soon
as possible. IMPORTANT - All attendees *must* respond with their intention
to participate. Because we are meeting in Federal buildings, the Capitol
police need a list of all attendees a week before the meeting. Anyone not
on the list will *not* be allowed in.
See you in Washington.
PS - It has turned out that Congress has decided to take their vacation the
same week that our meeting has been scheduled. This action was taken after
we had scheduled the meeting. As a result, there will be no members of
Congress on the Hill during our meeting. One positive aspect of this is
that Congressional staff members will have more of their time free to join
us during the Internet Caucus lunch and will be able to spend more time
discussing the issues.
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