-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents well, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston, actually... "5 Years of Digital Commerce: An Anniversary Celebration" Birthday Cake and Champagne will be Served Tuesday, October 3rd, 2000 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The Club's Dress Code is Business Casual At Noon, on Tuesday October 3rd, 1995, at the end of summer in a year when all commerce on the internet was measured in mere tens of millions of dollars, one year *after* the first book was bought over the net (not on Amazon, but using a PGP-encrypted credit card between two people on the cypherpunks list) the 29 folks below: Richard Blatt Pierre Bouchard Jeffrey Bussgang Travis J.I. Corcoran John DeYoung Gerald Gold Phillip Hallam-Baker Fredrick Hapgood Steven Hecht Craig Heim Robert A. Hettinga Arthur Hutchinson Owen D. Johnson Howard Kaye, Jr. John Kelly Rohit Khare Peter Krautscheid David Lash Yezdi Lashkari Norbert Leser Richard Lethin David Lindbergh Peter Loshin Kevin B. McLellan James O'Toole Ken Rodrigues Richard Salz Jeffrey Sutherland Christopher Wysopal ...put on their suits and ties, went to Downtown Harvard Club of Boston on the 38th floor of the once-Shawmut, then-Fleet, now-Sovereign Bank Building. They had lunch, signed a membership book, and formed Boston Society for Digital Commerce, which, at the its next meeting, at the suggestion of Donald Eastlake "to make it more instantiable", changed its name to the Digital Commerce Society of Boston. Since then, every first Tuesday of the month (yes, we were the *first* first Tuesday, though not the First First Tuesday, :-)),with exactly two exceptions, one an act of God and the other an act of the Harvard Club and SailBoston :-), we've met, had lunch, schmoozed a bit, and listened to various principals in the business of digital commerce talk about how they do what they do. At the end of this message is a very long list of those who have spoken to DCSB so far. If we may say so, this list is indeed impressive, not only for the quality of the speakers and who they became, or even were at the time, but also for the prescience of their content. A lot of things have happened since then. Commerce on the net will soon be measured in trillions of dollars every year, and most people now believe that *all* commerce of any consequence will happen on the net soon enough. Oh. And the Harvard Club doesn't require a jacket and tie anymore. Why? Because of commerce on the internet, of course! :-). This meeting, we'll do something of a reprise of the first. Everyone will be given a chance to reminisce about the last 5 years, but more important, to predict three things that they think will happen in the next 5. Plus ca change, and all that. See you next week! This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, October 3rd, 2000, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $35.00. This price includes lunch, room rental, A/V hardware if necessary, and the speakers' lunch. The Harvard Club has relaxed its dress code, which is now "business casual", meaning no sneakers or jeans. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your meal if the Club finds you in violation of what's left of its dress code. We need to receive a company check, or a money order, (or, if we actually know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, September 30th, 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", in the amount of $35.00. Please include your e-mail address so that we can send you a confirmation 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. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: November Zully Ramzan and Nicko van Someren "A Micropayment Shootout" As you can see, :-), we are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, are a principal in digital commerce, and would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Committee, care of Robert Hettinga, <mailto: rah@shipwright.com>. For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to <mailto: 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 <mailto: majordomo@ai.mit.edu> . We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, R. A. Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston - - - ---------------------------------- The 5th Anniversary List of DCSB previous meeting speakers and their topics... November 1995 Win Treese Designing Systems for Electronic Commerce December 1995 Rich Salz A Middleware Guy Looks at Issues in Digital Commerce January 1996 (Still LookingŠ) (The lost meeting... Let us know if you remember! :-)) February 1996 Fred Hapgood Digital Commerce as Living Room ExIm, Retail Replacement March 1996 Mark Bernkopf Tales from the Dark Side: Non-Anonymous Digital Cash April 1996 Donald Eastlake, III Implementing Financial Cryptography, The Cybercash Example May 1996 Perry Metzger Gold Denominated Burmese Opium Futures? June 1996 Frank Jaffe The FSTC Electronic Check Project July 1996 Peter Loshin Electronic Commerce: The State of the Art August 1996 Duane Hewitt Betting on the Future September 1996 Tatsuo Tanaka The Transnationality of Digital Cash October 1996 Philippe Le Roux Putting a Stock Exchange on the Net November 1996 Philip S. Corwin The Election and Digital Commerce Agenda December 1996 Black Unicorn Money Laundering -- The Headless Horseman of the Infocalypse January 1997 Rodney Thayer Applying PGP To Digital Commerce February 1997 David Kaufman The Internet Consumer -- 1996 in Review & Predictions for 1997 March 1997 Daniel Greenwood Online Government & Electronic Commerce April 1997 Snowed out No Meeting May 1997 Stewart Baker Clinton Administration Crypto Policy June 1997 Fred Hapgood Internet as an Auction-Pricing Incubator July 1997 Win Treese IETF-TLS, Exporting Financial Cryptography, and the Prospects for SET August 1997 Duncan Frissell MarketEarth September 1997 Christof Paar Elliptic Curve Cryptography and Digital Commerce October 1997 Peter Cassidy A Future Garrisoned November 1997 Carl Elllison Identity and Certification for Digital Commerce December 1997 James 0'Toole Digital Coupons and Distributed Commerce January 1998 Donald Eastlake, III "SET and UNSET" February 1998 Phill Hallam-Baker (into the breach for Baum, see below) PKI and the Commercial CA (The Next Generation :-)) March 1998 Joseph Reagle Meta-data and Negotiation in Digital Commerce April 1998 Adam Shostack No Silver Bullet -- Digital Commerce and Payment Security May 1998 Donald Eastlake The Internet Open Trading Protocol June 1998 Michael Baum PKI and the Commercial CA (TOS :-)) July 1998 Scott Guthery CtrlShft in the Smart Card Industry August 1998 Frank Jaffe FSTC echeck US Treasury Pilot September 1998 Margaret Schindel Best Practices for Consumer Digital Commerce October 1998 Peter Cassidy Burning the Jolly Roger; Internet Anti-Piracy Technology November 1998 Dan Geer Risk Management is Where the Money Is; Trust in Digital Commerce December 1998 Mary Ellen Zurko Jonah, IBM, Open Source, and Digital Commerce January 1999 Ira Heffan and Mike Schmelzer Software Patents February 1999 Roland Meuller The European Directive on Privacy March 1999 Jonathan Rusch Internet Fraud and the Future of Digital Commerce April 1999 Fred Hapgood Product/Price Comparison in Digital Commerce May 1999 Chris Wysopal The L0pht and Client Security in Digital Commerce June 1999 Ron Rivest Microcash on the Internet, Deep Crack = MicroMint? July 1999 Tim Middelkoop Software Agent Systems for Digital Commerce August 1999 Ari Juels Outsourcing MicroMint Coins, and X-Cash September 1999 Andrew Odlyzko So, Where's All the Digital Cash? October 1999 Gerald Gold Internet Content -- Stories from the Front November 1999 Warren Agin Bankruptcy and Internet Commerce Assets December 1999 Pat Cain Trustable Internet Time and Digital Commerce January 2000 Elias Israel The Libertarians and Digital Commerce February 2000 Suzan Dionne Balz The Law of Digital Cash March 2000 Brad Hillis Implementing a State Digital Signature Law April 2000 Andrew Dubois Digital Commerce Policy in Canada May 2000 Yiannis Tsiounis InternetCash and the "loading" problem June 2000 Paul St. Pierre XML, Smartcard Wallets and Digital Commerce July 2000 4th of July/Tall Ships No Meeting August 2000 Bruce Schneier Secrets, Lies, and Digital Commerce September 2000 Fred Hapgood and Eric Johansson Post-Napster Models for Digital Commerce -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQEVAwUBOc90gcUCGwxmWcHhAQF7xQgApLZBGxOwuRrthBcx/Y17MMIXlGqrvxXB s29pmd/Lox8C6HVnwG6zamAsDK98gUG6U5SnDCuTisfUjkdVYC6De4jzzQgOoxsf Ndo9JKzEsSqZIVd6c3+WYnKMExchbCjBB6rtUPKlNJ1j/Kz9Pv0SkVhkv5MzK0b5 rqcSelPWSe3WigRvEz8Q+zZ0Ie3VMEQDA1S5hH9GJnrOXnI464bsdmmNq0jMrd0w SQmrGlS04mnqREikTiR7tN1TPXsFAWo6Al4Qzmrv6M1CJPNqeEH66YqqsByxxAG3 HwPaRNjQVHYSvKP+tnievErfU6d6v96AyHXqSAtU7nz8XWF8LGiz+w== =TRR5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- ----------------- R. 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