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Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com)
Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:55:02 -0500
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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 12:22:13 -0500
To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>
From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Subject: CFP: The Philodox Symposium on Digital Bearer Technology
Cc: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>,
"Eric S. Johansson"
<esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us>,
Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
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Announcement Date: January 19, 1998
C A L L F O R P R E S E N T A T I O N S
The Philodox Symposium on Digital Bearer Transaction Technology
A symposium on specific applications of digital bearer transaction technology
The Downtown Harvard Club
Boston, Massachusetts
March 25-26, 1998
To Submit Presentation Abstracts:
<mailto:rah@philodox.com?subject=Proposed%20DBTT%20Presentation>
Presentation Submission Deadline: February 25th, 1999
To register for the Symposium: <http://www.philodox.com/symposiuminfo.html>
Registration deadline: March 12, 1999
WHAT IS DIGITAL BEARER SETTLEMENT?
A digital bearer transaction is one where a cryptographically secure
value-object, issued and underwritten by a third party, is exchanged
between the two parties in a trade, typically over a public
internetwork. The object executes, clears, and settles the transaction
instantaneously, securely, and, in the most secure protocols,
anonymously.
For a much more detailed financial and legal discussion of digital bearer
transaction settlement, and of the market for these kinds of transactions,
please see the Philodox home page, <http://www.philodox.com>.
THE PHILODOX SYMPOSIA ON DIGITAL BEARER SETTLEMENT
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism, of Boston, Massachusetts, in
association with the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, announces the
second in a series of symposia, conferences and workshops on the
subject of digital bearer transaction settlement.
The First Philodox Symposium on Digital Bearer Settlement was held in late
July of last year, and though small, it was a resounding success, with several
luminaries in the field of electronic commerce and digital bearer transaction
settlement in attendance. For information on the First Symposium, see
<http://www.philodox.com/firstsymposium.html>.
A NEW SYMPOSIUM ON THE TECHNOLOGY OF DIGITAL BEARER SETTLEMENT
The second of these gatherings, a professional symposium examining specific
applications of the technology of digital bearer settlement, will be held
at the Downtown Harvard Club of Boston, Thursday and Friday,
March 25 and 26, 1998. The symposium will be a forum for designers and
developers of digital bearer transaction applications to discuss their
ideas -- and especially their products -- in a friendly, collegial
setting, high above downtown Boston.
FIRST CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
This is the First Call for Presentations for the Symposium.
Anyone who has an idea, design, prototype or product using digital bearer
transaction technology is invited to send an abastract of your proposed talk
to Philodox and reserve a speaking slot in the appropriate section, or
sections, of the Symposium's agenda (seen below), to discuss their work with a
group of interested technical, legal, financial, and marketing professionals.
Selection for inclusion in the Symposium's agenda will be fairly flexible, but
preference will be given, where necessary, to the the originality of the idea,
and then to the stage a given digital bearer technology application is in in
the development cycle, the later in development the better.
SUBMISSIONS
To submit a proposal for your talk, please send a small abstract, of no more
than 250 words, to Robert Hettinga, of Philodox <mailto:rah@philodox.com>. Mr.
Hettinga will forward it on to the appropriate section chairs. You should
receive confirmation of your speaking slot within 5 working days, and probably
sooner. Since speaking slots will be assigned on a rolling basis, it is
probably better to submit a rough idea of your talk to us as soon as possible,
and ammend it later if you need to.
By submitting a proposal, presenters are committing to come to the Symposium
to give their presentation, and will be automatically registered as Symposium
participants. As this is a small, bootstrapped event, no discounts are
available for presenters whose proposals are accepted, per se. However, it is
possible that a limited amount of fee discounts and waivers will be available
contingent on several factors. See the Scholarship section of this Call,
below, for details.
BOOTHS
A limited amount of display space may be available for companies who wish to
put up a small 10 X 10-foot booth. If you're interested in buying boothspace,
please contact Robert Hettinga, <mailto:rah@philodox.com>, directly.
SPONSORSHIPS
It is entirely possible to sponsor this event. :-) This includes the cocktail
party on Thursday night, and sponsorships can be either monitary or in kind.
Please contact Robert Hettinga, <mailto:rah@philodox.com>, directly, for
details.
THE SYMPOSIUM'S FORMAT
Each section of the Symposium will consist of presentations of digital bearer
technology applications, led by an expert moderator. Ample opportunity will be
given for feedback and discussion of the application or idea. And, in the
tradition of the first Philodox Symposium, there will be lots of time at meals
and the symposium's social events for one-on-one discussion.
THE SYMPOSIUM'S AGENDA
AGENDA
THE PHILODOX SYMPOSIUM ON DIGITAL BEARER SETTLEMENT APPLICATIONS
The Downtown Harvard Club
One Federal Street, Boston
March 25-26, 1999
THURSDAY, MARCH 25, 1999
(Club Dress Code: Jacket and tie, please. No jeans or athletic shoes)
0730-0830: Check-in, Breakfast
0830-0845: Welcome
0845-1015: Section 1: LOYALTY PROGRAMS AND OTHER IN-KIND TOKENS
Section Chair: Dan Geer <geer@world.std.com>
1015-1030: Break
1030-1200: LOYALTY PROGRAMS, cont'd.
1200-1300: Lunch
1300-1500: Section 2: CASH-SETTLED INTERNET SERVICES
Section Chair: Eric S. Johansson <esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us>
1500-1515: Break
1515-1715: CASH-SETTLED INTERNET SERVICES, cont'd.
1715-1830: Reception, Jazz, Cocktails and Hors d'Oeurves
overlooking Boston Harbor
(Held in conjunction with the Digital Commerce Society of Boston)
FRIDAY, MARCH 26, 1999
(Dress Code: "Business casual." No jeans or athletic shoes)
0800-0830: Breakfast
0830-0845: Announcements
0845-1015: Section 3: CAPITAL MARKET APPLICATIONS FOR DIGITAL BEARER
SETTLEMENT
Section Chair: Robert Hettinga <rah@philodox.com>
1015-1030: Break
1030-1200: CAPITAL MARKETS, cont'd.
1200-1300: Lunch
1300-1430: Section 4: OTHER MARKET APPLICATIONS FOR DIGITAL BEARER SETTLEMENT
Section Chair: Ian Grigg <iang@systemics.com>
1430-1445: Break
1445-1630: OTHER MARKET APPLICATIONS, cont'd.
1630-1645: Closing
SYMPOSIUM COST AND REGISTRATION
The cost for the Philodox Symposium on Digital Bearer Transaction
Technology is $899, payable to "Philodox", on a company check or
personal money order sent to Robert Hettinga, Philodox Financial
Technology Evangelism, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA, 02131, USA.
Philodox must have delivery of your payment on or before noon, Eastern
Standard Time, March 12, 1998. Massachusetts residents should add 5%
sales tax. If possible, please include the recipient's email address
on the check, to aid in confirmation.
In addition, participants must also register for the Symposium at the
Symposium's registration page, <http://www.philodox.com/symposiuminfo.html>.
Include on the form provided there the participant(s) name, email
address, company affliation, in addition to what
expertise and interests you bring to the symposium, to help us with
content and discussion development. Confirmation of your Symposium
seat will be sent by email upon receipt of your check. If you intend
to pay your Symposium admission by wire, please indicate so the
checkbox provided on the form, and wire instructions will be sent to
you by email. If, for some reason, you plan to come but cannot arrange
payment in time for the deadline, please register anyway, and contact
Mr. Hettinga directly at <mailto: rah@philodox.com> to see if
something can be worked out.
Your Symposium fee goes towards conference room rental, breakfasts,
lunches, a cocktail reception on Thursday night, snacks, audio-visual
rental, internet access on-site, and various mementoes of the occasion. And,
of course, Philodox's event management fee.
SCHOLARSHIPS
A small number of scholarship fee-waivers will be available,
contingent upon direct sponsorship and the size of the Symposium, to
be selected by Philodox and based upon the applicant's financial need
and ability to contribute to the symposium. Please contact Robert
Hettinga, <mailto: rah@philodox.com>, if you want to request a
fee-waiver.
THE DIGITAL BEARER SETTLEMENT EMAIL LIST: DBS@PHILODOX.COM
As part of Philodox's ongoing support of the technology of digital
bearer settlement, an email list has been established to discuss the
technology and its ramifications in an unmoderated, informal setting.
Please use the following URL in any mailto-capable browser to subscribe to the
list itself: <mailto:requests@philodox.com?subject=subscribe%20dbs>.
It is hoped that the Symposium's participants will use
dbs@philodox.com as a "watering hole" list for their discussions
before, during, and after the Symposium.
WHO IS PHILODOX?
Philodox is a financial technology evangelism company founded by
Robert Hettinga, founder of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston,
and founding moderator and editor of several internet discussion lists
and newsletters on digital commerce and financial cryptography. Mr.
Hettinga is also founder of both the International Conference on
Financial Cryptography, and the International Financial Cryptography
Association.
For more information on Philodox, please see <http://www.philodox.com>.
See you soon in Boston!
Cordially,
Robert Hettinga
Founder,
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism
Boston, Massachusetts
The Philodox Symposium on Digital Bearer Transaction Settlement is
sponsored in part by the Internet Guide Service Inc., <mailto:
esj@harvee.billerica.ma.us>, and their generous contribution of
the symposium's network and internet access services.
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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'
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
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'
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