ELSI: Electronic Licensing and Security Initiative
Robert Hettinga
rah at shipwright.com
Thu May 30 21:48:48 PDT 1996
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 17:01:10 -0300
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From: The Arctos Group <arctos at arctos.com>
Subject: ELSI: Electronic Licensing and Security Initiative
At 03:43 PM 5/30/96 -0400, Robert Hettinga <rah at 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
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