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    Forwarded From: Robert Hettinga <rahat_private>
    Originally To: Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbsat_private>
    
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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:rahat_private?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:rahat_private>. 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:rahat_private>, 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:rahat_private>, 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 <geerat_private>
    
    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 <esjat_private>
    
    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 <rahat_private>
    
    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 <iangat_private>
    
    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: rahat_private> 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: rahat_private>, if you want to request a
    fee-waiver.
    
    
    
    THE DIGITAL BEARER SETTLEMENT EMAIL LIST: DBSat_private
    
    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:requestsat_private?subject=subscribe%20dbs>.
    
    It is hoped that the Symposium's participants will use
    dbsat_private 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:
    esjat_private>, and their generous contribution of
    the symposium's network and internet access services.
    
    
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