The government's information superhighway team is finally coming together. Commerce Secretary Ron Brown last week named the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council. Members include Craig Fields, chairman of MCC; Mitch Kapor, chairman of the *Electronic_Frontier_Foundation* and co-creator of Lotus 1-2-3; nathan Myhrvold, senior VP for advanced technology at Microsoft; Bert Roberts, chairman of MCI; and John Sculley, former chairman of Apple.

Interesting stuff, though it really belongs on comp.eff.org.talk or other netnews groups rather than in cypherpunks; we've talked about it a bit, but the major cypherpunk issues are encryption policy and how much we'll be able to engage in free speech if the state-capitalists manage to steal the nets from the emerging free market. (Oh, wait, that's flame bait, isn't it? Sorry :-) Followup-To: comp.org.eff.talk -- Thanks; Bill # Bill Stewart AT&T Global Information Systems, aka NCR Corp # 6870 Koll Center Parkway, Pleasanton CA, 94566 Phone 1-510-484-6204 # email bill.stewart@pleasantonca.ncr.com billstewart@attmail.com # ViaCrypt PGP Key IDs 384/C2AFCD 1024/9D6465