From: Robert Hettinga Subject: DCSB: Donald Eastlake; "The Internet Open Trading Protocol" The Digital Commerce Society of Boston Presents Donald Eastlake 3rd Cybercash, Inc. The Internet Open Trading Protocol Tuesday, May 5, 1997 12 - 2 PM The Downtown Harvard Club of Boston One Federal Street, Boston, MA The Internet Open Trading Protocol provides an interoperable framework for Internet commerce. It is payment system independent and will be able to encapsulate payment systems such as SET, Mondex, CyberCash, DigiCash, GeldKarte, etc. IOTP is able to handle cases where such roles as the merchant, the payment handler, the deliverer of goods or services, and the provider of customer support are performed by different parties or by one party. See . Donald Eastlake 3rd is a Principal Systems Engineer at CyberCash, Inc. before which he was in the Pathworks network group at Digital Equipment Corporation. At CyberCash, he helped design the "CyberCash message format" documented in RFC 2898 and implemented the library routines that support them. He also architected and did the preliminary implementation of CyberCash's SET implementation. He is active in IETF standards efforts and is currently the document editor for the IETF DNS security working group including RFCs 2065 and 2137. [Moderator's note: Unfortunately, Jeremey Barrett of BlueMoney, the speaker originally scheduled for May, found himself unable do so this month. We are in the process of rescheduling his talk on digital bearer settlement for a later date. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may cause. The DCSB Program Committee thanks Mr. Eastlake for coming forward on such short notice with such a splendid replacement topic.] This meeting of the Digital Commerce Society of Boston will be held on Tuesday, May 5, 1997, from 12pm - 2pm at the Downtown Branch of the Harvard Club of Boston, on One Federal Street. The price for lunch is $32.50. This price includes lunch, room rental, various A/V hardware, and the speaker's lunch. ;-). The Harvard Club *does* have dress code: jackets and ties for men (and no sneakers or jeans), and "appropriate business attire" (whatever that means), for women. Fair warning: since we purchase these luncheons in advance, we will be unable to refund the price of your lunch if the Club finds you in violation of the dress code. We will attempt to record this meeting and put it on the web in RealAudio format at some future date We need to receive a company check, or money order, (or, if we *really* know you, a personal check) payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", by Saturday, May 2nd, or you won't be on the list for lunch. Checks payable to anyone else but The Harvard Club of Boston will have to be sent back. Checks should be sent to Robert Hettinga, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, Massachusetts, 02131. Again, they *must* be made payable to "The Harvard Club of Boston", in the amount of $32.50. Please include your e-mail address, so that we can send you a confirmation If anyone has questions, or has a problem with these arrangements (We've had to work with glacial A/P departments more than once, for instance), please let us know via e-mail, and we'll see if we can work something out. Upcoming speakers for DCSB are: June Michael Baum PKI Requirements from a Commercial CA's Perspective July Rodney Thayer IPSEC and Digital Commerce TBA Jeremey Barrett Digital Bearer Settlement We are actively searching for future speakers. If you are in Boston on the first Tuesday of the month, and you would like to make a presentation to the Society, please send e-mail to the DCSB Program Commmittee, care of Robert Hettinga, . For more information about the Digital Commerce Society of Boston, send "info dcsb" in the body of a message to . If you want to subscribe to the DCSB e-mail list, send "subscribe dcsb" in the body of a message to . We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Robert Hettinga Moderator, The Digital Commerce Society of Boston ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 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' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/