At 10:56 PM 11/26/95, James A. Donald wrote:

At 01:12 PM 11/27/95 -0800, Jonathan Zamick wrote:

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it means forming a group, made up of Cypherpunk members perhaps, but much smaller, and capable of working together. Also capable of handling not only the theory, but good solid code, GUI, PR, meetings, talking to the government, etc.

Skip the talking to the government bit: Ignore, do not confront.

I can't agree. The model of a successful enterprise includes feedback from different levels of participants. Regardless, the government will be taking a role in encryption. Thus even if they aren't a defining part of the development, bringing them to a limited extent into the loop, and finding even small areas which the government would support, helps provide better buy-in by the government officials who participate, helping the momentum. The point isn't to bring them into the design, but simply to use their feedback to optimize our PR approach. Jonathan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ..Jonathan Zamick Consensus Development Corporation.. ..<JonathanZ@consensus.com> 1563 Solano Ave, #355.. .. Berkeley, CA 94707-2116.. .. o510/559-1500 f510/559-1505.. ..Mosaic/WWW Home Page: .. .. Consensus Home Page ..