--- begin forwarded text Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 21:52:04 -0400 X-Authentication-Warning: online.offshore.com.ai: list set sender to fc98-request@offshore.com.ai using -f Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 02:33:04 +0100 (MET) From: Ray Hirschfeld <R.Hirschfeld@cwi.nl> To: fc98@offshore.com.ai Subject: IFCA Resent-From: fc98@offshore.com.ai X-Mailing-List: <fc98@offshore.com.ai> archive/latest X-Loop: fc98@offshore.com.ai Precedence: list Resent-Sender: fc98-request@offshore.com.ai The second year of a new conference is perhaps the most difficult--the novelty has worn off but the conference is not yet firmly established. But all indications for FC98 are promising. Another success next week will be a signal to do it again next year. A new organization, the International Financial Cryptography Association (IFCA) has been formed to support future meetings of the Financial Cryptography conference. IFCA will not only be responsible for organizational aspects of the conference, but will also select the program chair. All paid registrations of FC98 will automatically receive a year's membership in IFCA (unless they indicate that they do not wish to join). Others may join by paying membership dues. A first general meeting of IFCA will be held on the evening of Tuesday February 24, just before the conference rump session, and all members are encouraged to attend. The main purposes of the meeting will be to elect directors and to discuss possible locations for FC99 (and perhaps FC00). If you are interested in hosting an FC conference and can provide some logistic support for it, you are invited to bring a proposal to the meeting. Ideas tossed around so far have mostly focused on other "financial island" locations, e.g., Grand Cayman, Hong Kong, Manhattan, Jersey, etc., but anyplace reasonable will be considered. (There will almost certainly be insufficient information available at the time of the meeting to make a decision, but an indication of the wishes of the membership will be gathered to help guide the directors.) --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>