From hhll at u.washington.edu Thu Jul 8 00:21:15 1993 From: hhll at u.washington.edu (Steven Hodas) Date: Thu, 8 Jul 93 00:21:15 PDT Subject: Release: July 5, 1993 In-Reply-To: <9307080534.AA29729@netcom2.netcom.com> Message-ID: This hearing has been "indefinitely postponed" due tothe realization of some bright young thing that in this country, at least, private corporations do not sponsor government hearings. perhaps this is a way to raise some much needed reveneu, but for now it's a no-go. Steven On Wed, 7 Jul 1993, ccat wrote: > Content: First Announcement/On-Line Congressional Hearing > > On July 26 at 9:30AM EDT, the Subcommittee on Telecommunications > and Finance of the U.S. House of Representatives will hold the first > Congressional Hearing ever held over a computer network. The oversight > hearing on "The Role of Government in Cyberspace" will take place in > the Grand Ballroom of the National Press Club at 14th and F Streets, > N.W., Washington, D.C. The hearing is open to the public. An open > house will be held from 3-5PM on the same day in the same location and > is also open to the public. > > Chairman Markey has asked that this historic occasion demonstrate > the potential and diversity of the global Internet. Thirty Sparcstations > will be in the hearing room, allowing members of Congress, staff, and > their guests to read e-mail, use Gopher menus, read testimony in WAIS > databases, browse the World Wide Web, and otherwise use the resources > of the global Internet as part of the hearing. > > Some witnesses for the hearing will testify remotely, sending audio > and video over the Internet. Audio and video of the hearing will also > be multicast over the Multicast Backbone (MBONE). We are hoping that > C-SPAN and other traditional media will also carry the event. *MORE > DETAILS ON MBONE AND OTHER WAYS TO WATCH THE HEARINGS REMOTELY WILL BE > FORTHCOMING SHORTLY.* > > One of the primary points that we are hoping to demonstrate is > the diversity and size of the Internet. We have therefore established > an electronic mail address by which people on the Internet can communicate > with the Subcommittee before and during the hearing: > > congress at town.hall.org > > We encourage you to send your comments on what the role of government > should be in the information age to this address. Your comments to this > address will be made part of the public record of the hearing. Feel free > to carry on a dialogue with others on a mailing list, cc'ing the e-mail > address. > > Your cards and letters to congress at town.hall.org will help > demonstrate that there are people who use the Internet as part of their > personal and professional lives. We encourage you to send comments on > the role of government in cyberspace, on what role cyberspace should play > in government (e.g., whether government data be made available on the > Internet), on how the Internet should be built and financed, on how you > use the Internet, and on any other topic you feel is appropriate. This > is your chance to show the U.S. Congress that there is a constituency > that cares about this global infrastructure. > > If you would like to communicate with a human being about the > hearing, you may send your comments and questions to: > > hearing-info at town.hall.org > > Support for the Internet Town Hall is provided by Sun Microsystems > and O'Reilly & Associates. Additional support for the July 26 on-line > congressional hearing is being provided by ARPA, BBN Communications, > the National Press Club, Xerox PARC, and many other organizations. > > Network connectivity for the Internet Town Hall is provided by > UUNET Technologies. > >