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Unders tanding by the organizations present today."
The initiative will be supported by the Protocol Support Organization - - an advisory body of ICANN - - which is concerned with the technical stan- dards that compu te r s will use to exchange in format ion and manage communica t ions over the Internet. It will operate through a protocol coun- cil cons is t ing of two m e m b e r s appointed by each of the signatories. It will have an advisory role to the ICANN Board on the assignment of parameters for Internet protocols and a policy deve lopment role for the development and recommendat ion of policies in the area of protocol para- meter assignment. The signatories of the Memorandum of Understanding
will, however, remain responsible for the policies for parameter assignment for the specific protocols they have developed. Commenting, Fred Baker, Chairman of IETE said: "This is impor- tant because the Internet and the glob- al telecoms backbone are increasingly becoming closely related, and the bod- ies that define them must work togeth- er in order for either to handle the current change in the right way."
Further information from the ITU Web site at: <www.itu.int>.
Diary
* Negotiating Software Contract: 7-9 March 2000; Grosvenor House Hotel,
London; Hawksmere; Tel: +44 207 8811858 or Fax: +44 207 7304293, E- mail: [email protected].
* Negotiating Telecoms Contracts: 7-8 March 2000; The Churchill Intercontinental, London; IBC Global Conference Ltd;Tel: +44 207 4535492 or Fax: +44 207 6366858, E-mail: [email protected].
* The New Europe in the World Economy: 33rd World Congress: International Chamber of Commerce, Budapest; 3-5 May 2000; ICC Conferences; 38, t ou r s Albert ler, 75008 Paris, France; Tel: +33 1 49532869 or Fax: +33 1 49532942; E- mail: [email protected]: Web site: <www.iccwbo.org>.
Video Review
The Day After the Day Before
This is the most recent in a series of videos produced by Look Multimedia in relation to the year 2000 issues. Whilst one would not usually suggest a video about the year 2000 that does not have pure legal content, for lawyers to look at, if it presented the technical issues in relation to the year 2000 dearly, it would be very helpful to lawyers fltmiliar with the legal issues to unders tand some of the technical issues that have caused the problem in the first place.
However, this video certainly does not fit into that category. Set around a hypotheticalAustralian factory, it traces the day of the IT person responsible for that company's year 2000
programme from when he gets in in the morning on the first working day in the year 2000. The only thing it does highlight is the number of areas where a year 2000 failure could happen.There are complaints
about failure of doors controlled by swipe cards; heating systems; cooling systems; refrigerators; ventilation systems; alarms; and a host of common equipment.
However, the video is appallingly acted; adds nothing to the year 2000 problems; does not explain how the problems arise and gives no indication of how the problems might have been solved if addressed earlier.
At the end of the video, the factory burns down - - frankly, I am not surprised. Heather Rowe, Lovell White Durrant, London
NEW REPORT CORRESPONDENT
CLSR is pleased to we lcome John Warchus to the Correspondents Panel of the journal: John qualified in 1990 and practised in two City firms with leading IT law practices before joining Lochners
Technology Solicitors in March 1998 with a remit to head up the firm's IT and Internet practice.John's firm is unusual in being staffed by ex-City lawyers concentrating in the niche area of Intellectual Property and Information Technology law.
John holds a Master of Laws Degree from Cambridge University and a Post-Graduate Diploma in European Union Law from the llniversity of Amsterdam. He specialises in both contentious and non-contentious aspects of IT law and has enjoyed extensive litigation experience in representing both major IT suppliers and users. In keeping with the E-com- merce rewflution, John is required to spend increasing amounts of time drafting and advising on a wide range of agree- ments relating to Internet and E-commerce issues. John also works closely with a number of New Media and Technology support groups based in London and the South of England.
John is a member of the Society of Computers and Law, the British Computer Society and the Society for IT Management and is a registered Adjudicator with the Official Referees' Solicitors Association.
In his spare t ime,John is keen on the cinema and theatre and his main sporting interests are football and rugby. He tries to maintain his French and Spanish and aided in respect of the latter in that his wife, Marta, is from Barcelona.
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