[CAnet - news] Call for Participation: Trust and the Future of the Internet

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"Call for Participation: Trust and the Future of the Internet

The Internet Society (ISOC) Board of Trustees is currently engaged in a 
discovery process to define a long term Major Strategic Initiative to 
ensure that the Internet of the future remains accessible to everyone. The 
Board believes that Trust is an essential component of all successful 
relationships and that an erosion of Trust: in individuals, networks, or 
computing platforms, will undermine the continued health and success of 
the Internet.

The Board will meet in special session the first week October of 2007 for 
intensive study focused on the subject of trust within the context of 
network enabled relationships.  As part of this process, the Board is 
hereby issuing a call for subject experts who can participate in the two 
day discussion. Topics of interest include: the changing nature of trust, 
security, privacy, control and protection of personal data, methods for 
establishing authenticity and providing assurance, management of threats, 
and dealing with unwanted traffic.

Participants will be selected based on a short paper summarizing 
individual interests and qualifications as well as availability. The 
retreat will be held in Toronto, Ontario (CA) . Travel and accommodation 
costs will be covered by ISOC and participants should expect to arrive 
October 4th and depart on the 6th or 7th. Expressions of interest may be 
emailed to:  Oct07-retreat @ elists.isoc.org and papers should not exceed 
three pages. Papers must received by August 24th, 2007 and the Program 
Committee will make their selections on or before September 7th, 2007. 
Subject experts will be allotted one hour for presentation on October 5th 
and will be included in the days round-table discussions. In order to 
facilitate open discussion, final presentation materials should be 
forwarded to ISOC no later than September 21st, 2007.

We look forward to a lively and informative meeting on this important 
topic and encourage you to share this announcement with your communities 
of interest."

Lucy Lynch
Director of Technical Projects
Internet Society (ISOC)


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