A mindblowing opportunity to promote the cypherpunk ideal of anonymity in a highly reputable and influential context recently dropped into the lap of a friend of mine. This close friend of mine got an inquiry from an extremely prestigious science foundation into the possibility of studying anonymity in cyberspace. It is an entirely embryonic stage right now, but a director at this association is interested in commissioning papers, interviewing subjects, having focus groups, perhaps even organizing a conference on the subject, particularly the "social, legal, and technical" angles. This may have major impact in the various and sundry studies influencing future policy on the "information highway". If you can forward me some leads, I would appreciate it greatly, and I will get you in touch with this key person. At this point the contact is at an idea stage and probably would benefit greatly from talking to organizers of similar endeavors. Also this project would involve fundraising for the cost of the studies, so anyone you might know with an interest in sponsoring this kind of endeavor (particular corporations, although that would be a bit paradoxical I admit), please send me email. For example, if someone could get me the name/phone/email address of whoever chaired that panel on Anonymity a few years ago at the Conference on Freedom and Privacy (Helsingius and Gilmore were panelists), I would greatly appreciate it. many thanks-- ~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^ \ / ~/ |\| | | |> | : : : : : : Vladimir Z. Nuri : : : : <vznuri@netcom.com> \/ ./_.| | \_/ |\ | : : : : : : ftp://ftp.netcom.com/pub/vz/vznuri/home.html