For the information of ietf-pkix subscribers....<<<<
============================================================================
PRELIMINARY MEETING NOTICE
============================================================================
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 - JAN. 11-12, 1998 - SF
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 Sunday-Monday, January 11-12, 1998, at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. The Committee will continue its advancement of public key infrastructure legal and control issues, and will include further work on CA accreditation, commercial key recovery 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 January 11-12 meeting -- and affiliate ABA membership is available for non-lawyers.
Meeting details appear below. I look forward to seeing you in San Francisco.
Sincerely,
Michael S. Baum
Chair, Information Security Committee
Section of Science & Technology, ABA
---------------
INFORMATION SECURITY COMMITTEE
Section of Science & Technology, ABA
January 11-12, 1998
Agenda
(In extended sessions, breaks will be taken as needed.)
January 11, 1998 - Sunday
8:30- 9:00 Greetings, coffee, 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 speaker: Andreas Mitrakas, Ph.D., Erasmus University, Netherlands
13:00-17:00 WG breakouts
17:00-??? Watering hole discussions; possible continuation of WG meetings
January 12, 1998 - Monday
8:30-09:00 Breakfast, et cetera
9:00-09:30 Administration update
9:30-12:00 Breakout sessions; Legislative WG conference call
12:00-13:00 Lunch speaker: Congresswoman Eshoo (tentative)
13:00-16:00 WG wrap-ups
15:00-17:00 WG presentations
Additional proposed agenda items, and speakers should be emailed to Michael Baum (michael@verisign.com).
---------------------------------------
Information Security Committee - San Francisco
Electronic Commerce Division, Section of Science and Technology
MEETING DETAILS
January 11-12, 1998
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: Charlie 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.
**Comparative Law Work Group
Contacts: Serge Parisien, Esq. (parisise@droit.umontreal.ca)
Suzanne Thibodeau (thibodsu@notarius.com)
The Comparative Law work group will continue its exploration of the requirements for PKI in civil law and other legal jurisdictions. It will also continue efforts to harmonize legal infrastructure with the common law.
**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 will also 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.
**Evidentiary Work Group
Contacts: Gary Fresen, Esq. (gary.w.fresen@bakernet.com)
Serge Parisien, Esq. (parisise@droit.umontreal.ca)
The Evidentiary Work Group will continue its drafting of the judicial tutorial (a tutorial for judges to admit technology into evidence) 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.
**Global Trade Work Group
Contacts: Joseph Alhadeff (jalhadeff@uscib.org)
Lisa Kinard (lisa_kinard@miis.edu)
Linda Macintosh (lmack@hbainfo.com)
The Global Trade Work Group identifies and collaborates with trade groups whose work influences secure global trade and reports critical issues back to the ISC. The WG is developing an overall framework to structure and analyze secure trade issues; and is preparing an issues statement concerning cooperation between legal, business and technological professionals to reduce secure electronic international trade barriers.
**Key Recovery Work Group (KRWG)
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.
Attire for the meeting:
Sunday-casual; Monday-business attire.
First-time participants planning to attend the January 11-12 meeting: Please contact Ruven Schwartz, ISC ViceChair, at 612-687-8095 or Ruven.Schwartz@westgroup.com, for any questions, and to coordinate work-product contributions for the upcoming meeting.
Meeting Location:
Crystal Room, Fairmont Hotel, on Nob Hill in San Francisco <sanfrancisco@fairmont.com>
Meals: TBD
Lodging: Many of you will already be in San Francisco for the RSA Data Security Conference, and we recommend extending your stay to include Sunday and Monday. For hotel information see <www.hotelres.com/>.
RSVP: Please confirm your intention to participate to Ann Kowalsky, Section Manager, Section of Science and Technology (sciencetech@abanet.org) as soon as possible.
See you in San Francisco.
==============================================================