Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Members (and others): ********* PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY UNTIL Tuesday, October 2, 2001 DEADLINE*************** The Co-Chairs of the Congressional Internet Caucus have called upon the resources of the Advisory Committee and its members to provide any and all analyses "of current and future proposals to protect national security and their impact on the communications infrastructure." (See Co-Chair Letter September 24 at http://www.netcaucus.org/antiterrorism/letter.gif ). Therefore, the ICAC staff is asking for any and all analyses and educational materials on the various anti-terrorism proposals under consideration on Capitol Hill that affect the Internet or communications privacy in general. These proposals include: 1) the DOJ anti-terrorism bill, 2) Rep. Lamar Smith's bill, 3) the Sept. 13 amendment to the CJS appropriations, and 4) any other bills of being tracked by ICAC members that were offered in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. We are specifically seeking submissions in the following (overlapping) categories: - Title III, including the changes in Title I, subtitle A of the Administration's bill - FISA, including the changes in Title I, subtitle B of the Administration's bill - ECPA, e.g., the nationwide search warrants in sec. 108 of the Administration's bill - Pen Register and Trap & Trace, e.g., section 101 of the Administration bill - Encryption We will compile all the materials we receive and place them into a Legislative Briefing Compendium and distribute them in printed, online, and CD-ROM format to Congressional staff. For this limited instance, you may request that materials be reproduced without attribution; if you are a law firm, you may submit a memo without revealing whom it was written for. If your organization would like to have your analyses included in this Compendium, please follow the guidelines below. The Compendium on these electronic surveillance issues is for the sole purpose of educating Members and staff. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The ICAC will accept submissions -- according to the Guidelines below -- until COB Tuesday, October 2, 2001, with the goal of producing the Compendium and circulating it to Congressional offices on Thursday, October 4. As the deadline draws near, submissions not complying with these Guidelines risk rejection for lack of time to make necessary revisions. Each submission should be tailored to a specific section of the Compendium based on the outline below. - Title III, including the changes in Title I, subtitle A of the Administration's bill - FISA, including the changes in Title I, subtitle B of the Administration's bill - ECPA, e.g., the nationwide search warrants in sec. 108 of the Administration's bill - Pen Register and Trap & Trace, e.g., section 101 of the Administration bill - Encryption You MUST indicate the appropriate category when submitting. If you have one document covering more than one category, you have three options: 1) keep it whole and submit it in the "introduction category" if appropriate; 2) break it into pieces yourself; or 3) make a request that it remain whole within a category with pointers from others. Because of the heavy demand and tight schedule, we cannot promise that requests will be met and we may have to edit documents if they contain information irrelevant to the outline. 2) Please send materials in an electronic format (e.g. MS Word [preferred]; WordPerfect, plain text, PDF). Faxes, hard copies and URLs will NOT be accepted. 3) Materials should include header information in both the email and on the document. Please indicate: * the organization that is submitting (unless submitting without attribution) * comments and requests with the contact person of that organization with their phone number/email. 4) By submitting materials to the Compendium, you are giving us your assurance that you are giving us all required copyright permissions to reprint the materials. 5) Email all submissions to briefing@netcaucus.org An archive of this email will remain at http://www.netcaucus.org/antiterrorism/ until further notice. Contact Tim Lordan at 202-638-4370 with any questions. Tim Lordan Internet Caucus Advisory Committee 202-638-4370 tim@netcaucus.org ************************************************************************** Subscribe to Freematt's Alerts: Pro-Individual Rights Issues Send a blank message to: freematt@coil.com with the words subscribe FA on the subject line. List is private and moderated (7-30 messages per week) Matthew Gaylor, (614) 313-5722 ICQ: 106212065 Archived at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/fa/ **************************************************************************