Subject: Contracts on Internet: Invite to E-Commerce Roundtable
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:27:00 -0400
From: Vergil Bushnell <vbushnell@cptech.org>
Organization: Consumer Project on Technology
To: jspotilla@omb.eop.gov
CC: asquires@omb.eop.gov

Hello.

My name is Vergil Bushnell, a policy analyst at the Consumer Project on
Technology (CPT). CPT is a research and advocacy organization that was
founded by Ralph Nader in 1995.

In addition to my duties at CPT, I serve as the secretary for the newly
formed Washington, D.C. E-commerce Roundtable. The Roundtable is a
monthly forum for the discussion of e-commerce policy issues. Previous
Roundtables have been attended by consumer advocates, academics, members
of the e-commerce press and representatives of the Federal Trade
Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and Departments of
Commerce and State. Topics discussed at the Roundtable have included the
future Hague Convention on International Jurisdiction and the Effects of
Judgements in Civil and Commercial Matters, ICANN and internet domain
name disputes and online privacy.

CPT contacted your office last February concerning the Ralph Nader/
CPT proposal to put government contracts on the Internet.

I am writing today to invite you to come to the July meeting of the
E-commerce Roundtable to discuss your office's role in e-commerce,
and the placing of government contracts on the Internet. The date
for the July Roundtable has not been formally set, and we would be
happy to arrange a date that accords with your schedule.

More information about the E-commerce Roundtable (including notes and
the participants of previous Roundtables) is available at
www.cptech.org/ecom/Roundtable.

Please do not hesitate to contact me, or CPT's director -- Jamie Love --
at 202-387-8030.

Sincerely,

Vergil Bushnell
Consumer Project on Technology
email: vbushnell@cptech.org
phone: 202-387-8030