Summary: Maybe it's time for another emergency session of Cypherpunks to discuss policy in the aftermath of the double whammy announcements of Tessera/Clipper II and the new and even more dangerous Digital Telephony Bill.
Since such a meeting would be only one week before our regular meeting, and since we had ignorantly but presciently scheduled the topic to be "Politics", I see no need.
It'd also be nice if some of the outlying groups (Cambridge, MA, Washington, D.C., London, Colorado, Austin) could link up with us at least briefly.
[Background: we did voice-over-IP for the emergency meeting last year right after clipper came out.] I'd like to do this again. Can those who are interested in setting up this technically contact me directly for coordination? Also, for those who did it last time, even if you won't be doing it this time, I'd like to hear from you. And if someone can get us an MBONE channel for this, I'd be willing to carry two or three hours of the meeting on a broadcast-only basis.
(If we started at noon, California time, that would be fine for the East Coasters, but 8 or 9 p.m. for the Londoners....does the London group still meet?)
We'll be meeting at the same time, noon on the second Saturday, as we always do. Eric