TELECOM Digest Sat, 18 Dec 93 23:23:00 CST Volume 13 : Issue 827 Inside This Issue: Moderator: Patrick A. Townson Worldwide Electronic Commerce Conference (Michael S. Baum, Esq.) Re: Restrictions on Repeat Call and Return Call (Paul Robinson) Re: TDD Software Wanted (Joe Whalen) Re: International Calls via Cable or Satellite (Stewart Fist) Re: Carrier For 800 Number? (Robert Cohen) Re: AT&T's New Facility (Dave Niebuhr) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks. Subscriptions are available at no charge to qualified organizations and individual readers. Write and tell us how you qualify: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu. 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Worldwide Electronic Commerce will address the implementation and control issues inherent in applying Electronic Commerce to today's environment. The answers provided at this conference will address current problems as well as provide a foundation for dealing with these complex issues in the future. We have been fortunate to have secured an unusually qualified and internationally recognized faculty to share their experience, knowledge and theories on the wide range of issues identified in this brochure. We are equally pleased to have obtained a distinguished group of organizations who, in affiliation with this conference, are lending their considerable support. Please join us at this unique and ground breaking event which will be held on January 16-18, 1994 in New York City at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Michael S. Baum, Esq., Conference Chair M. Todd Ostrander, Conference Co-Chair WORLDWIDE ELECTRONIC COMMERCE CONFERENCE PUT ON IN AFFILIATION WITH: American Bar Association, Section of Science & Technology Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London Computer Law Association EDI Association of the United Kingdom EDP Auditors Association Harvard Law School John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University National Institute of Standards and Technology U.S. Council for International Business Data Interchange Standards Association Healthcare EDI Corporation International Union of Latin Notaries CONFERENCE AT A GLANCE SUNDAY, JANUARY 16TH - Registration 17:00 - 20:00 PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIALS: 18:00 - 19:30 * Electronic Trade Overview for Beginners * Security and Audit Overview * A General Counsel's Perspective on Electronic Trade * Electronic Commerce Policy and Regulation 101 MONDAY, JANUARY 17TH - Registration 7:00 - 18:00 OPENING PLENARY: 8:00 - 8:50 SESSION 1: 9:00 - 10:20 * Will Legislation Keep Up with Electronic Trade? * Anatomy of a Model EDI Audit Program * Will Privacy Requirements Inhibit Electronic Commerce? * Clearing Houses and Electronic Commerce SESSION 2: 10:30 - 11:50 * U.S. Efforts in Coordinating Electronic Commerce Standards Policy * How to Audit a Third Party/Value Added Network * What is Cost Effective Commercially Reasonable Security? * Anticompetitive Restraints on Trade in Electronic Commerce LUNCH 12:00 - 13:30 SESSION 3: 13:30 - 14:50 * Trading Partner and Business Agreements in Electronic Commerce * Electronic Negotiability - What Scares the EDI Users Away? * INFOSEC Standards Coordination and Interworking * Time/Date Stamping - Options and Constraints SESSION 4: 15:00 - 16:20 * United Nations Electronic Commerce Initiatives * Directory control Issues in Electronic Messaging and EDI * Comparing Critical Cryptographic Algorithms and Standards * Financial Clearing Houses - a Foundation for EDI? SESSION 5: 16:30 - 17:50 * Model Electronic Payments Agreements * What to Save, When to Save It, and For How Long * Do "Smart Cards" Provide an "Ultimate" Control Solution? * The "FAST" Initiative - Business Trust in the Computer Era? TUESDAY, JANUARY 18TH - Registration 7:00 - 12:00 SESSION 6: 8:00 - 9:20 * Negotiating Electronic Trade Agreements * Back-Up, Archival and Contingency Planning Services * Security Policy in a Global Information Environment * Electronic Software Distribution (ESD) - a Pandora's Box? SESSION 7: 9:30 - 10:50 * Value Added Networks and Interconnect Agreements * Do Criminal Laws Really Protect Electronic Commerce? * Digital and Electronic Signatures and the Law * Accreditation and Certification - the New Frontier? SESSION 8: 11:00 - 12:50 * The ICC Electronic Commerce Initiatives * Admitting, Proving and Enforcing EDI Transactions * Re-engineering the Tax Filing Process * EDI Insurance - the Next Control Approach? LUNCH: 12:00 - 13:30 SESSION 9: 14:00 - 15:20 * Central and Eastern European Electronic Trade * The Role and Future of Notaries in Computer-Based Commerce * Will Healthcare Reform Profoundly Reshape EDI Law, Policy, and Controls? * The Uses of Escrow in Electronic Commerce SESSION 10: 15:30 - 16:50 * Who Owns the Standards, Functionality and Systems? * Risk Analysis in Electronic Trade * Judicial EDI * EDI Translation Software Control and Legal Considerations CONFERENCE PROGRAMMING COMMITTEE: Robert Barger, Esq., Section of Science and Technology, American Bar Association Michael S. Baum, Esq., Independent Monitoring, Conference Chair Susan Caldwell, Executive Director, EDP Auditors Association Rachel Foerster and Garren Hagemeier, Healthcare EDI Corporation Mark L. Gordon, Esq., Computer Law Association Jerry Mechling, Ph.D. and Tom Fletcher,Ph.D., Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Mario Miccoli, Natariat, Unione Internazionale Del Notariato Latino Professor Charles R. Nesson, Harvard Law School M. Todd Ostrander, EDI Program Manager, Egghead Software, Conference Co-Chair Chris Reed, Esq. and Ian Walden, Ph.D., Centre for Commercial Law Studies, University of London Peter Robinson and Bruce Wilson, U.S. Council for International Business Roy Saltman, National Institute of Standards and Technology úÿ (continued next message) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area # 700 EMAIL 12-19-93 00:23 Message # -7055 From : TELECOM Digest Moderator To : ELIOT GELWAN PVT RCVD Subj : TELECOM Digest V13 #827 ÿ@FROM :TELECOM@DELTA.EECS.NWU.EDU úÿ(Continued from last message) In Memory of the Late Professor Donald Trautman, Harvard Law School SUNDAY, JANUARY 16TH: PRE-CONFERENCE TUTORIAL EVENING SESSIONS The following tutorials provide newcomers to electronic trade with an overview of the concepts, technologies, and business practices that will make the conference more meaningful. These pre-conference sessions are scheduled from 18:00 - 19:30, January 16th, so that they will not interfere with the regular conference sessions. ELECTRONIC TRADE OVERVIEW FOR BEGINNERS An overview of "Electronic Trade" and how it applies to the business environment of the '90's & the 21st century. You will learn about the history and state of electronic commerce, including EDI, E-Mail, and other enabling computer-based trade technologies and the components necessary to implement these technologies successfully in your industry. Additionally, this session will provide an overview of electronic commerce-relevant aspects of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), United Nations/EDI for Administration, Commerce and Trade (UN/EDIFACT) and International Standards Organization (ISO) standards development processes, how they affect you, and important differences that multi-national companies will likely encounter while implementing them. SECURITY AND AUDIT OVERVIEW The basic control structures and security guidelines for an electronic trade program including cryptographic and non-cryptographic controls will be discussed in this tutorial session. This session also provides the 'non- auditor' with a description of the unique characteristics of auditing in an electronic trade environment and an understanding of how auditors must contribute to the electronic commerce environment. A GENERAL COUNSEL'S PERSPECTIVE ON ELECTRONIC TRADE Corporate counsel are increasingly called upon to respond quickly and effectively to the demands of accelerating electronic trade implementation programs. Veteran corporate counsel will summarize the critical responsive actions they have taken, and provide perspectives on how they navigated and climbed the electronic commerce learning curve. This session will provide the electronic commerce neophyte general counsel with helpful hints for making the most of the conference. ELECTRONIC COMMERCE POLICY AND REGULATION 101 The policy and regulatory issues affecting electronic commerce continue to grow without an end in sight. As a primer for an enriching Worldwide Electronic Commerce conference, this session identifies and explains the critical policy and regulatory building blocks (and road blocks) that electronic commerce professionals simply cannot avoid. It also surveys the "tools" that are used in policy development and implementation. This session provides a useful foundation for many of the policy-oriented sessions. REGISTRATION INFORMATION HOTEL & AIRLINE INFORMATION American Airlines is offering discounted air fares for the Worldwide Electronic Commerce Conference. Arrangements may be made by calling American Airlines at 1-800-433-1790 and referencing "Star" Code S1814P7. Continental Airlines is also providing discounted air travel for the Worldwide Electronic Commerce Conference. To make reservations, call 1-800-468-7022. Please reference Identification Code ZAB58. International travelers: please contact your local Continental phone number for specially discounted fares. For this conference, Continental Airlines has waived the need to stay over a Saturday night to obtain the lowest possible fare. The beautiful Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in the heart of New York City will be the site of the Worldwide Electronic Commerce Conference. This prestigious internationally-acclaimed hotel provides the finest in accommodations and is offering a special room rate of $159 to all conference attendees. Reservations can be made by calling 1-212-355-3000. CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS INTERNATIONAL SCOPE: Most conference sessions will include one or more persons from a country other than the United States, or one or more representatives from international organizations, to provide a diversity of perspectives and experiences. CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Conference papers of all sessions will be bound and distributed to all participants. GROUP & STUDENT DISCOUNTS: Discounted registration fees will be offered to companies sending three or more individuals and to qualifying students. Call: 1- 214-516-4900 for more information. CONTINUING LEGAL EDUCATION: For information concerning C.L.E. points, call 1-214-516-4900. HOW TO REGISTER REGISTRATION FEE: $550 total conference registration fee. BY MAIL: Completed forms must be accompanied by a money order, check, or credit card number (American Express, MasterCard, or Visa). All checks should be made payable to Worldwide Electronic Commerce Conference, P.O. Box 743485, Dallas, Texas 75374, USA. BY FAX: Completed forms, when paying be credit card, may be faxed to 1-214-424-0562. BY PHONE: Call 1-214-516-4900 for payment by credit card or questions about the conference. BY E-MAIL: Worldwide Electronic Commerce can also be reached on Compuserve at 76520,3713. REGISTRATION FORM: To register, please print out a copy of the form below, complete it by typing or printing the registration information and return one completed form with payment for each registration. Mail to P.O. Box 743485, Dallas, TX 75374, USA or Fax to: 1-214-424-0562. _____ I am registering for the Worldwide Electronic Commerce Conference (Total: $550) _____ I plan on attending one of the Pre-Conference Tutorial Sessions. (Select one below): _____ Electronic Trade Overview _____ Security & Audit Overview _____ General Counsel's Perspective _____ Electronic Commerce Policy A check is enclosed for $___________ -OR- Please bill my:___VISA ___MasterCard ___American Express Card No.______________________ Exp. Date_________________ Name on Card_____________________________________________ Signature________________________________________________ Registrant's Name________________________________________ Title____________________________________________________ Preferred First Name for Badge___________________________ Company / Organization___________________________________ MS / Dept._______________________________________________ Address__________________________________________________ City________________________ State______ Zip_____________ Telephone________________________ Fax____________________ Do You Require Special Handicapped Access? ____Yes ____No Will you be staying at the Waldorf? ____Yes ____No Final agenda subject to change, especially as the program expands and additional speakers are added. CANCELLATIONS must be received in writing and postmarked no later than December 22, 1993 to receive a 50% refund of the paid registration. No refunds will be issued after December 22, 1993, regardless of when the registration is received. NO SHOWS are liable for the entire conference fee. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENTS for the handicapped will be made if requested in advance. To make a request, contact the "Conference Coordinator" at 1-214-516-4900. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1993 12:26:15 EST From: Paul Robinson Reply-To: Paul Robinson Subject: Re: Restrictions on Repeat Call and Return Call Organization: Tansin A. Darcos & Company, Silver Spring, MD USA Carl Moore , writes: > Arriving with my Delaware phone bill, and I have put some comments > in in brackets; *69 for return call and *66 for repeat call, with > 11 replacing the * if used from rotary phone: > Some phones may not respond properly to the Repeat Call and Return > Call special rings. A local or toll charge may apply for calls > made with Repeat Call and Return Call. [What is the special ring > like, and what does such improper response consist of? I guess the > internal signal is different in some way.] The standard ring on a phone is one six second ring. The "return call ring" is three one second rings. Your phone or answering machine may take this as one ring or as three, and if you have your answering machine set at three rings, may pick up the phone. > Repeat Call and Return Call do not work with calls made to most > 700, 800, and 900 numbers. [What are the exceptions, and what > happens if you attempt this and it indeed does not work?] There is no means on "return call" to identify where the call is coming from unless the call on every single switch it traversed, ran on SS7 switches. Nothing else provides the information to tell where the call came from. There is no means on "repeat call" to put through a call to a normally busy line unless the local switch can query the destination to see if it is busy without ringing the destination. If you try to use these services on numbers that aren't accessible, you get a recording saying they can't do it. > You can request your local business office to restrict Repeat Call > and Return Call from your telephone line at no extra charge. [What > happens if such a restriction exists at the receiving end of your > intended call? Or does this mean that if I have such a > restriction, I cannot use these features?] It means if you have such a restriction, you cannot use these features. These are normally sold in two flavors: pay per view and per month. Per month means you pay a charge for usage during the month -- here in Maryland it's $4 a month, each -- and you can use it as many times as you want. "Pay per view" means you pay 75c each use with no maximum, e.g. if you used it 100 times during the month, expect to be billed $75.00. Its operation varies depending on where you are and how smart the switch is. In Pat Townson's Chicago area, if you try to repeat call to the number you are at, it calls you to tell you the number is clear, then finds it busy when you answer, then when you hang up it calls you to tell you it's clear, then finds it's busy when you answer, and so on for the next 30 minutes. Here if you try that, and the number is still busy when you pick up the phone, it informs you that it has cancelled your request because the number has become busy while waiting for you to answer the phone. I did some interesting tests on Caller ID and repeat call/return call that I'll probably mention later. Paul Robinson - Paul@TDR.COM úÿ (continued next message) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Area # 700 EMAIL 12-19-93 00:23 Message # -7054 From : TELECOM Digest Moderator To : ELIOT GELWAN PVT RCVD Subj : TELECOM Digest V13 #827 ÿ@FROM :TELECOM@DELTA.EECS.NWU.EDU úÿ(Continued from last message) [Moderator's Note: It has been repaired here also, and now it only attempts once to connect you with yourself. It finds your line free and calls you; then once it gets you on the line of course it finds your line busy and advises you it is cancelling the request. I sort of liked it better before it was debugged. :) PAT] ------------------------------ From: Joe Whalen Subject: Re: TDD Software Wanted Date: Sat, 18 DEC 93 22:10:44 EST Organization: Delphi Internet Michael, You are probably aware that TDD's normally use the Baudot code instead of ASCII, like computers do. I have not ever found software that can send Baudot code. You best bet is talking to ASCII TDD's. Fortunately, most of the newer TDD's can be switched from one protocol to the other. :) Joe ------------------------------ From: Stewart Fist <100033.2145@CompuServe.COM> Subject: Re: International Calls via Cable or Satellite Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 02:31:00 GMT Dr Weiyun Yu writes about fax over Australian international cable systems: > Correct me if I am wrong. Exactly the opposite happens. > The 0015 lines primarily use the satellite route while > the 0011 numbers has the cable route when ever possible > to provide better voice quality (no echoes). > Apparently the fax machines are immune to echoes. That's not my understanding; I checked with Telstra's National Network Information Centre. Fax only goes over satellite when nothing else is available. In fact, the main problem that fax machines face is echo, especially on modern international circuits where the line quality is now very good (and so, therefore, are the echos). It is essential that echo-cancellation be in place or multiple errors in the receiver will likely cause the sender to retransmit the document, again, and again, and again (One morning I had five copies of an MCI 15 page press release). The problem is that the echo cancellation circuits get turned off by the 2100Hz tone in the handshaking routine. And since this is a half-duplex system (without Echoplex), cancellation needs to turn back on again to handle the 9.6k data rate. This would normally be forced by a deliberate pause following the handshake transmission (part of the fax standard), but with high-quality circuits and a bit of echo on the line, the pause is camoflaged by noise and the echo-cancellation stays locked out, which then creates problems during the transmission. This happens even on the 0015 international fax lines. Over satellites, fax has problems with protocol collisions during the turn-around at the end of each page, also, because of the delayed echo. However fax is used over satellites to the Pacific Islands (where there's nothing else available) so it obviously works, but it is not desirable. Speech interpolation and bit-stealing are however, the main reasons why special cable circuits are designated for fax. The DCME/DCMS interpolation systems tend to clip the transmissions as they switch in and out, and cause errors, and the bit-stealing during peak load periods on international circuits causes a quality loss which the fax often won't tolerate. About 80% of Australia's voice traffic and 100% of its fax traffic goes by cable to the USA and Europe, I am told. This is up from about 50% for voice and fax, a few years ago when satellite was more in vogue and before the Pacific fibre systems became operational. ------------------------------ From: robc@netcom.com (Robert Cohen) Subject: Re: Carrier For 800 Number? Organization: Calif. Home for the Unruly Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1993 00:25:35 GMT Gerry, Simply put, when I dial +1800.950.3535 from San Francisco, Microsoft Sales answers. Robert Cohen robc@netcom.com [Moderator's Note: But Bob, he was not asking who the customer was with the number, but *what carrier* they were using. For that info, I still suggest whoever handles telecom for Microsoft Sales is going to have to discuss that with him. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 19 Dec 93 02:42:43 GMT From: dwn@dwn.ccd.bnl.gov (Dave Niebuhr) Subject: Re: AT&T's New Facility jbutz@hogpa.ho.att.com (John J Butz) > Over the Thanksgiving weekend, I traveled south on I-95 from NYC to > Washington, DC. After emerging from the tunnel in Baltimore, the AT&T > cable laying ships are visible from the "port-side" in the harbor. On > Friday morning, both vessels were docked. However, on the Sunday > return trip, only one boat was still in port. Perhaps to Long Island > is where the second ship went? It's possible since the cable laying is to begin shortly. I was in Maryland last year (Laurel and Columbia) and saw the ships on both drives to there and back. > I've been sailing on the Great South Bay out of Islip and it looks > deep enough to handle an ocean going vessel. Also, the Robert Moses > causeway bridge to Fire Island would definitely provide clearance for > a fairly tall ship. However, I've been fluke fishing enough times to > tell you that most of the Great South Bay is pretty shallow. Dave, > perhaps you could go on a recon-mission and let us know if the AT&T > ship is there? 8-) The bay is about ten feet deep, at most except for the intercoastal waterway. If AT&T is smart, that's the way to come into the bay. Moriches Inlet is closer to the crossing point but it has been officially closed to traffic due to the offshore shoaling. Boats still use it though. There's still one more bridge to sail under, Smith Point, in Shirley where the cable will cross the bay. A large, ocean-going vessel shouldn't be needed for this part of the operation. Dave Niebuhr Internet: dwn@dwn.ccd.bnl.gov (preferred) niebuhr@bnl.gov / Bitnet: niebuhr@bnl Senior Technical Specialist, Scientific Computing Facility Brookhaven National Laboratory Upton, NY 11973 (516)-282-3093 ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V13 #827 ****************************** Downloaded From P-80 International Information Systems 304-744-2253