Legislating for the Long Term?

[Phillip Temple]

At 09:50 PM 3/12/98 +0000, T Bruce Tober wrote:
>And let's start our own initiating committee with for example:
>
>Who                      Networking with
>Me                       Media
>You                      Civil liberties/rights orgs
>Nicholas Bohm            Legal community
>Brian Gladman            Software developers/programmers
>Ross Anderson            Academia
>Richar Clayton           ISPs and/or software companies
>All of us                Whatever corporate types we know

Well my talents lie in web design rather than technical knowledge
of ttps, so I've been working away to produce an online resources
and discussion forum. The site design has been done, graphics, CGI
and Javascript completed. I had to do this outside of office hours,
and so it is difficult trying to find time to fill in the content.
I've had offers from a number of prominent people to write articles
for the site, but to start off with it will mainly be a page which
gathers together and organises the best of the resources currently
available. Domain name has been registered already.

This is not a civil liberties site, there are a number of excellent
such sites already out there. This is a neutral forum where government,
business and private individuals can put forwards their views. It also
has a live interactive forum where individual points may be discussed
in greater detail. I'm out of the country this week-end, but I will
work on it Mon, Tue and Wed evenings. I intend that it should be online
and ready to go public by Thursday morning next week.

Phillip Temple
(speaking in a personal capacity and not on behalf of his employers)

PS Can anyone put me in contact with potential sponsors? My employers
have very generously paid to register the domain name, and have offered
to host the site for free, but sponsorship would give the site:
a) more independance
b) the ability to pay for articles time to time
c) the option to hold 'live' events, eg with noted speakers on the subject