More mud in the waters

["Marty Modell" <ir001264@mindspring.com>]

I read this today and thought I would pass it on to the list

Source:    clari.tw.new_media; clari.tw.top 

Subject:	****State Legislators Launch US Internet Council 12/10/96
Source:	NB / WAS Date:	12/10/96 06:31:40 PM              
Copyright:	Copyright 1996 by Newsbytes News Network       


WASHINGTON, DC, U.S.A., 1996 DEC 10 (NB) -- By Bill Pietrucha. A 
bipartisan group of state lawmakers from across the country this
morning formally launched the US Internet Council and immediately got
to work on its first leadership conference. 

The council is being formed "to provide a policy forum at the state 
level on issues affecting the future of the Internet," Illinois State
Senator Steve Rauschenberger told Newsbytes. 

The council also "will be a companion effort to complement the work 
of the Congressional Internet Caucus," he said. 

Internet Council spokesperson Mark Rhoads added that the group will 
act "as an information exchange network for state legislators who are
responsible for Internet issues in their states." 

"In states where it is appropriate," Rhoads told Newsbytes, "the 
Council's goal is to set up state legislative caucuses to further
disseminate Council research." 

The state legislators, members of Congress and Congressional staff 
wasted no time this morning after formally launching the council,
jumping into a day long series of seminars, speeches and workshops
designed to brief the state lawmakers on the current status of
emerging Internet issues. These issues, Rhoads told Newsbytes, include
content regulation and free speech, tax policy, education, and the
need for global Internet policies. 

After opening remarks by Jeff Eisenach, president of the Progress & 
Freedom Foundation, Internet Council Director Bill Myers, Center for
Democracy & Technology Executive Director Jerry Berman, and US Senator
Pat Leahy, honorary national co-chair of the Internet Council, the
legislators rolled up their sleeves to learn everything they ever
wanted to know about the Internet. 

Janet Caldow, director of IBM's Institute for Electronic Government; 
Kimberly Jenkins, president of Highway 1; Intel's vice president of
government affairs Michael Maibach; Jill Lesser, deputy director of
policy and senior counsel at America Online , Inc., spent the morning
providing the legislators with demonstrations of how the Internet
works. 

Other topics that will be addressed today include and overview of 
state policy and the Internet; content regulation and free speech;
education, learning and the Internet; and tax policy and the Internet.
Conference sponsors include America Online, Inc. AT&T, Bell Atlantic,
Bell South, Center for Democracy and Technology, Center for the New
West, Circuit City Stores, Hewlett Packard, Highway 1, IBM, Intel,
Information Technology Industry Council, Jones Intercable, Microsoft
Corporation, Progress & Freedom Foundation, and the US Chamber of
Commerce. 

(19961210/Press Contact: Mark Rhoads, United States Internet  
Council, tel 202-289-8928. Reported by Newsbytes News Network: 
http://www.newsbytes.com) 



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Marty Modell                     e-mail: ir001264@mindspring.com 
      http://www.mindspring.com/~ir001264/Home.htm         
                  author of 
      A Professional's Guide to Systems Analysis
         Second Edition - McGraw Hill - 1996