From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 12:48:48 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: ELSI: Electronic Licensing and Security Initiative
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Date: Thu, 30 May 1996 17:01:10 -0300
To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu (Digital Commerce Society of Boston)
From: The Arctos Group <arctos@arctos.com>
Subject: ELSI: Electronic Licensing and Security Initiative

At 03:43 PM 5/30/96 -0400, Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com> wrote:
>Will,
>
>Will you send me another message with a paragraph about ELSI with the
>URL you gave me, and I'll put it into the e$pam and DCSB lists...
>
>Cheers,
>Bob


Sure.  Here is the beginning of the press release:

   Stream, LitleNet, BBN, and KPMG Announce Industry-Wide Initiative
   to Enable Wide Scale Software Electronic Commerce

   Westwood, MA - May 7, 1996 - Supported by AT&T,IBM , First Data,
   Microsoft Stream International Inc. and LitleNet in association
   with BBN and KPMG, announced today the formation of the Electronic
   Licensing and Security Initiative (ELSI).  The objective of this
   initiative is to develop standards and build and operate a scalable
   clearinghouse infrastructure that will make electronic distribution
   of software secure, accountable, quick, and inexpensive.  The group
   expects the ELSI clearinghouse, which will be designed to accommodate
   various industry approaches, to be operational in test mode by late
   1996...


The "ELSI Clearinghouse Technology Backgrounder" which I pointed you to
earlier is available at:

         http://www.litle.net/ELSI.html


The full text of the press release, with information about the several
particpants is available at:

         http://www.litle.net/cgi-bin/pr.cgi?pr=26

Cheers,
Will
The Old Bear



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