--- begin forwarded text X-Sender: oldbear@pop.tiac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 17:01:10 -0300 To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu (Digital Commerce Society of Boston) From: The Arctos Group <arctos@arctos.com> Subject: ELSI: Electronic Licensing and Security Initiative At 03:43 PM 5/30/96 -0400, Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> wrote:

Will,

Will you send me another message with a paragraph about ELSI with the URL you gave me, and I'll put it into the e$pam and DCSB lists...

Cheers, Bob

Sure. Here is the beginning of the press release: Stream, LitleNet, BBN, and KPMG Announce Industry-Wide Initiative to Enable Wide Scale Software Electronic Commerce Westwood, MA - May 7, 1996 - Supported by AT&T,IBM , First Data, Microsoft Stream International Inc. and LitleNet in association with BBN and KPMG, announced today the formation of the Electronic Licensing and Security Initiative (ELSI). The objective of this initiative is to develop standards and build and operate a scalable clearinghouse infrastructure that will make electronic distribution of software secure, accountable, quick, and inexpensive. The group expects the ELSI clearinghouse, which will be designed to accommodate various industry approaches, to be operational in test mode by late 1996... The "ELSI Clearinghouse Technology Backgrounder" which I pointed you to earlier is available at: http://www.litle.net/ELSI.html The full text of the press release, with information about the several particpants is available at: http://www.litle.net/cgi-bin/pr.cgi?pr=26 Cheers, Will The Old Bear ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Arctos Group [Information Strategies for the Real Estate Industry] Post Office Box 329 - Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02167-0003 USA tel: 617.342.7411 - fax: 617.232.0025 - email: arctos@arctos.com visit our WWW site at URL: http://www.arctos.com/arctos ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com) e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "If they could 'just pass a few more laws', we would all be criminals." --Vinnie Moscaritolo The e$ Home Page: http://www.vmeng.com/rah/