-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----BY SAFEMAIL----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Philip S. Corwin, Principal, Federal Legislative Associates "The Impact of the 1996 Election on Washington's ECommerce Agenda" Tuesday, November 5, 1996 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA Mr. Corwin is a Principal of Federal Legislative Associates (FLA), a Washington, DC government relations firm whose clients include organizations involved with such issues as internet payments security, computer crime, encryption export restrictions, and the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material over the Internet. He has been involved in legislative activities for twenty years, including five years on the U.S. Senate's professional staff. Immediately prior to joining FLA he served as Director and Counsel for Operations, Retail Banking, and Risk Management for the American Bankers Association, where his portfolio included payments system policy, bank cards, consumer compliance, and money laundering. He is Official Reporter of the American Bar Association's Task Force on Regulatory Barriers, Committee on the Law of Commerce in Cyberspace. His articles on a broad range of financial system topics have been published in numerous publications here and abroad, including American Banker's Future Banking. He has testified before Congress and has been interviewed on such programs as the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, The Wall Street Journal Report, CNN Newsmaker, and CNBC Capitol Gains. "The Impact of the 1996 Election on Washington's ECommerce Agenda" will discuss the myriad federal legislative and regulatory initiatives which will shape the legal infrastructure for ECommerce. In particular, it will focus on Internet payments and digital value: the Federal Reserve and FDIC regulatory initiatives on stored value cards; money laundering; digital counterfeiting and financial system safety and soundness; taxation of Internet commerce; and the monetary policy implications of electronic free banking in competition with central banking. Mr. Corwin will also discuss the 104th Congress' attention to encryption export standards, Internet copyright protection, Internet privacy, and computer security and espionage, as well as general Congressional oversight of electronic banking. Finally, He will make some predictions about the disposition of these and other matters in the next Congress. This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, November 5, 1996 from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $27.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men, and "appropriate business attire" for women. We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, November 2, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston". If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Planned speakers for DCSB are: December "Black Unicorn" Money Laundering: The Headless Horseman of the Infocalypse January TBA 1996 in Review / Predictions for 1997 February Rodney Thayer Applying PGP To Digital Commerce We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, rah@shipwright.com . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo@ai.mit.edu . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to majordomo@ai.mit.edu . Looking forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----BY SAFEMAIL----- Version: 1.0b3 iQCVAwUBMl1dH/gyLN8bw6ZVAQG3MQP8CndlQ87Smpwjpky4o08vNLzr24lURKm4 M1lEFKTXuscXwb4wLS+0T003jbYqUWpSlwyzodpkogVc0avSTxMKwl1o9VVScgjf AjWFBmJ3/43i/5einwqRPR0csfonGznoT5oWq+9G0R1HrtYkrTSVI5BctdK+W+zV bJGqAanUcp8= =PEH4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "The cost of anything is the foregone alternative" -- Walter Johnson The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/