IP: Invitation to EFF Reception at OECD

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

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>Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 15:01:20 -0700
>To: eff-all@eff.org
>From: Tara Lemmey <tara@eff.org>
>Subject: Invitation to EFF Reception at OECD
>
>The Electronic Frontier Foundation
>cordially invites you to attend a reception
>to welcome participants of the
>Joint OECD-Private Sector Workshop
>on Electronic Authentication
>to Silicon Valley
>
>Wednesday, June 2, 1999
>5:30-7:30 PM
>Crocker Garden, Stanford Law School
>Palo Alto, California
>
>Please respond by June 1
>to Andrea Chiang
>Electronic Frontier Foundation
>Phone: 415.436.9333, x109
>Fax: 415.436.9993
>E-mail: andrea@eff.org
>
>
>About the OECD Working Party on Information Security and Privacy
>
>The Working Party on Information Security and Privacy of the Organisation
>for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is comprised of government
>and private sector representatives from OECD Member countries.  It has
>conducted work related to authentication for a number of years. Both the
>1992 OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems and the 1997
>OECD Guidelines on Cryptography Policy note the importance of data
>integrity and security in information and communications networks and
>systems.  The OECD Inventory of Approaches to Authentication and
>Certification in a Global Networked Society surveys activities in OECD
>Member countries related to authentication and certification on global
>networks, including laws, policies and initiatives in the public and
>private sectors, and at both the national and international level.  A
>Declaration on Authentication for Electronic Commerce adopted by Ministers
>at the Ottawa Ministerial Conference in October 1998 recognises the
>importance of authentication for electronic commerce and outlines a number
>of actions to promote the development and use of authentication
>technologies and mechanisms, including continuing work at the international
>level, together with business, industry and user representatives. Ministers
>declared their determination not to discriminate against the authentication
>approaches taken by other countries and to amend, where appropriate, the
>technology or media specific requirements in current laws or policies that
>might impede electronic commerce.
>
>
>Directions: http://www.stanford.edu/home/visitors/maps.html
>