Computer underground Digest Sun Nov 24, 1996 Volume 8 : Issue 82 ISSN 1004-042X Editor: Jim Thomas (cudigest@sun.soci.niu.edu) News Editor: Gordon Meyer (gmeyer@sun.soci.niu.edu) Archivist: Brendan Kehoe Shadow Master: Stanton McCandlish Field Agent Extraordinaire: David Smith Shadow-Archivists: Dan Carosone / Paul Southworth Ralph Sims / Jyrki Kuoppala Ian Dickinson Cu Digest Homepage: http://www.soci.niu.edu/~cudigest CONTENTS, #8.82 (Sun, Nov 24, 1996) File 1--Virus Hoax ("Irina Virus") File 2-- Again? Potential Viruses (Good Times/ Deeyenda) (fwd) File 3--Computer Hacking Whiz Pleads Guilty To Electronic B&E File 4--(Fwd) ADMIN: UNATHORIZED CHAIN LETTER HURTS MAKE-A-WISH File 5--Australia drafts Net rating system File 6--Launching of "Electric Minds" (two posts) File 7--IAHC Members Announced (fwd) File 8--Cu Digest Header Info (unchanged since 20 Nov, 1996) Nov CuD ADMINISTRATIVE, EDITORIAL, AND SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION ApPEARS IN THE CONCLUDING FILE AT THE END OF EACH ISSUE. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 22:40:19 -0600 (CST) From: Avi Bass Subject: File 1--Virus Hoax ("Irina Virus") 'Irina' Virus - A publicity hoax Panic at Penguin publicity hoax By Robert Uhlig - The Electronic Telegraph PENGUIN Books has apologised after a publicity stunt concerning a hoax computer virus called "Irina" backfired and panicked Internet users worldwide. Guy Gadney, the former head of electronic publishing at Penguin, sent out a bogus letter to newspapers and television stations claiming to be from Prof Edward Prideaux at the College of Slavonic Studies in London. "Some miscreant is sending e-mail and files under the title 'Irina'," the letters said. They claimed that the virus could erase the entire contents of any infected computer's disks and would "severely damage" the processor chip. Penguin is planning to launch an interactive book called Irina, in which one of the main characters is a Prof Prideaux, but the letters did not mention Penguin books. Within hours of the letter being sent out, news of the virus had spread to America and Europe. The Daily Telegraph received six copies of the bogus letter, which is not clearly identified as a publicity campaign or a PR stunt. Anti-virus experts said Penguin's publicity campaign was "highly irresponsible and dangerous". Although the College of Slavonic Studies does not exist, London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies said it had been inundated with calls to the fictitious Prof Prideaux. Mr Gadney said: "We had hoped that [the bogus letter] would be caught by a second letter to explain that the hoax letter was a teaser campaign for an interactive book. It is very unfortunate that we have created a scare - it was not our intention." Posted to ONLINE-NEWS. Made possible by Nando.net - http://www.nando.net [BY: Doctor Don -- Internetist ] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 09:20:33 +0100 From: Roberto Pedersini Subject: File 2-- Again? Potential Viruses (Good Times/ Deeyenda) (fwd) ((MODERATORS NOTE: In the past two weeks, we've received a dozen or so "Good Times" virus warnings, in addition to a similar "Deeyenda" warning. The madness starts again....most CuD readers know that both are hoaxes, but a bit of a reminder for the newcomers won't hurt)). ============== At 15.22 18/11/96 +0000, Jean Konzal wrote: >The other day I received a similar message, only the virus was called >"Good Times". That message turned out to be a hoax (I hope.) Is it >possible that this too is a hoax. Jean Konzal Both of them ('Good times': see below, and 'Deeyenda Maddick') should be a hoax (and probably also any other similar ones). The trouble they do is messing your e-mail box. The following is from Mikko Hypponen, Data Fellows Ltd's F-PROT Professional Support Copyriqht (c) 1989-1996, Frisk Software International Name: Good Times Alias: Good News Good Times is not a virus - it's just a hoax. This rare 'worm', known as Good Times, slithered its way through Internet news groups and various e-mail systems during December 1994. Good Times was not a virus as the word is commonly understood; more accurately, it was an efficient chain letter. Instead of spreading from one computer to another by itself, Good Times relied on people to pass it along The idea behind Good Times works somewhat like this: the originator puts into circulation an e-mail message which has the text 'Good Times' as its subject. The message itself contains a warning of a dangerous virus called Good Times which spreads itself through e-mail systems and activates when the message in which it hides is read. The message goes on to explain that such a dangerous message can be recognized by its subject, which is, of course, 'Good Times'. According to the warning, a 'Good Times' message must never be read, but destroyed on the spot instead. Many users don't realize that this warning is a hoax - no public e-mail system supports the execution of programs while the accompanying message is read. Howeverl since the message is written in a very sincere tone, people copy it and send it along to their friends; in fact, the warning explicitly encourages them to do so. Sooner or later, what goes around comes around, and a user who has sent the message along receives it as a warning from a friend's friend or more distant relation. The first thing the user sees is that he or she has received a message which has 'Good Times' as its subject. Believing himself under attack by the terrible virus, the user destroys the message without reading it. The message, of course, contains only the original warning. After this near escape, the user probably sends out still more 'Good Times' warnings. The Good Times warning-virus came in several different versions, one of which is shown below: - Subject--Good Times - - Date: 12/2/94 11:59 AM - - Thought you might like to know... - - Apparently , a new computer virus has been engineered by a - user of America Online that is unparalleled in its - destructive capability. Other, more well-known viruses such - as Stonedt Airwolf, and Michaelangelo pale in comparison to - the prospects of this newest creation by a warped mentality. - - What makes this virus so terrifying is the fact that no - program needs to be exchanged for a new computer to be - infected. It can be spread through the existing e-mail - systems of the InterNet. - - Luckily, there is one sure means of detecting what is now - known as the "Good Times" virus. It always travels to new - computers the same way - in a text e-mail message with the - subject line reading simply "Good Times". Avoiding infection - is easy once the file has been received - not reading it. - The act of loading the file into the mail server's ASCII - buffer causes the "Good Times" mainline program to - initialize and execute - - The program is highly intelligent - it will send copies of - itself to everyone whose e-mail address is contained in a - received-mail file or a sent-mail file, if it can find one. - It will then proceed to trash the computer it is running on. - - The bottom line here is - if you receive a file with the - subject line "Good TImes", delete it immediately! Do not - read it! Rest assured that whoever's name was on the - "From:" line was surely struck by the virus. Warn your - friends and local system users of this newest threat to the - InterNet! It could save them a lot of time and money. Despite extensive efforts to put a stop to Good Times, the messages have continued to spread and multiply in numerous e-mail systems worldwide. On some occasions, Good Times warnings have even been published in newspapers and broadcasted on radio. As was to be expected, it did not take too long for virus writers to realize how they could take advantage of the Good Times rumor. In April, 1995 an Australian virus group known as VLAD published a real PC virus called 'Good Times'. This version of 'Good Times' is an ordinary file virus which infects COM and EXE files. To further confuse the issue, the followinq messaqe is included in the viruse's source code: - The act of loading the file - into a mail server's ASCII - buffer causes the "Good - Times" mainline program to - initialize and execute. - Remember to email all your - friends, warning them about - C.nnd T 1 mem' - For obvious reasons, anti-virus proqrams will not recognize this virus by the name 'Good Times'. Instead, it has been named tGT-Spoof'. A similar incident took place also in the beginning of 1993. It involved a rumor about a fictional virus called 'Proto-T', which was soon followed bY the real thinq. [Mikko Hypponen, Data Fellows Ltd's F-PROT Professional Support] Copyriqht (c) 1989-1996, Frisk Software International ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 13:51:30 -0500 (EST) From: Noah Subject: File 3--Computer Hacking Whiz Pleads Guilty To Electronic B&E From -Noah ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date--Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:36:25 -0600 From--Frosty Subject--CSP VOYAGER ::: Computer Hacking Whiz Pleads Guilty To Electronic Break-And-Enter ST. LOUIS (Nov 15, 1996 11:12 a.m. EST) -- A computer whiz deemed so cunning he could control almost any computer system has accepted a plea bargain for hacking his way into the secret files of two major communications companies. Christopher Schanot, 20, was linked to the Internet Liberation Front, a group of hackers who have claimed responsibility for some high-profile computer pranks and who decry the commercialization of cyberspace. In exchange for a reduced sentence, Schanot pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of computer fraud and one count of illegal wiretapping. He faces up to 15 years in prison and $750,000 in fines at his sentencing on Jan. 31. ................... Authorities caught up with Schanot last March and arrested him at the suburban Philadelphia apartment he shared with a 37-year-old woman, Netta Gilboa, the publisher of Gray Areas. The magazine professes to explore subject matter that is "illegal, immoral and/or controversial." In April, Schanot was placed under 24-hour house arrest and ordered to not even talk about computers. Originally accused in a five-count indictment, he pleaded guilty to charges surrounding break-ins at Southwestern Bell and Bellcore, a communications research company owned by seven regional telephone companies. ................. [Copyright =A9 1996 Nando.net] [Copyright =A9 1996 The Associated Press] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 23:31:00 -5 From: Alan Kennedy Subject: File 4--(Fwd) ADMIN: UNATHORIZED CHAIN LETTER HURTS MAKE-A-WISH Source - fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu The latest episode in the saga of Craig Shergold.... ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date-- Sun, 10 Nov 1996 20:01:21 -0800 From-- Patrick Douglas Crispen Thanks to an unauthorized chain letter that is circulating around the Internet encouraging people to send business cards to a seriously ill boy, The Make-A-Wish Foundation, an organization that grants wishes to children diagnosed with a life-threatening ilness, is being flooded with thousands of unwanted pieces of snail mail each day. Seeing the damage that this unauthorized chain letter has caused to the Make-A-Wish foundation, I ask that you do the following: 1. Read the following press release carefully; 2. Visit http://www.wish.org/wish/craig.html or call (800) 215-1333, extension 184, to verify on your own that the facts contained in the following press release are legitimate [a good rule of thumb for Internet survival is to *NEVER* forward *ANY* e-mail letter on to your friends or coworkers without first verifying that the contents of that letter are factual]; and 3. After you have verified that the following press release is factual, PLEASE forward this entire e-mail letter to as many people as is possible. With the holiday season just around the corner, I hope that we can all join together to give the Make-A-Wish Foundation the greatest Christmas gift possible. Let's kill this unauthorized chain letter once and for all, and help Make-A-Wish get back to doing what they do best: granting the *REAL* wishes of children diagnosed with terminal diseases. {previous sender's multi-line sig snipped} Make-A-Wish Foundationr of America 100 W. Clarendon, Suite 2200 Phoenix, AZ 85013-3518 (800) 722-9474 Fax: (602) 279-0855 Media Release FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- Call (800) 215-1333, ext. 184 for pre-recorded Craig Shergold message. UPDATE ON CRAIG SHERGOLD PHOENIX, AZ - - An unauthorized chain letter encouraging people to send business cards to a seriously ill boy continues to generate thousands of pieces of mail each day, even though the boy is now healed and the family has requested an end to the mail. News reports stated in 1989 that Craig Shergold, a 9-year-old English boy diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor, wanted to be recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records for receiving the most greeting cards. His wish was fulfilled in 1990 after receiving 16 million cards. Shergold's tumor was successfully removed in March 1991. However, the cards and letters continue. Several versions of the letter exist, most of which wrongly claim that the young boy remains terminally ill and now wants to receive the largest number of business cards. The addressee is encouraged to gather business cards, forward them to an incorrect address in Georgia and then forward the chain letter to 10 friends. "The chain letter claims that Make-A-Wish is involved," stated James E. Gordon, Chairman of the Board of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America. "That is not true. Our organization is not, and has never been associated with the letter. Yet our office continues to receive numerous phone calls each month about the letter, diverting our staff time and resources from our mission. The Make-A-Wish Foundation requests that people please stop sending business cards or greeting cards to Craig Shergold." The Make-A-Wish Foundation of America has set up a special 800 number to explain the situation. Callers can listen to a pre-recorded message by dialing (800) 215-1333, ext. 184. Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, based in Phoenix, has 82 chapters in the United States. Any child between the ages of two-and-a-half and 18 who has been determined to have a life-threatening illness is eligible to receive a wish. The first wish was granted in Phoenix in 1980, and since then Make-A-Wish has granted more than 37,000 wishes ranging from building a backyard fishing pond to an all-expense paid trip to Disney World. For further information regarding the Make-A-Wish Foundation and qualifying children, contact (800) 722-9474. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 18:53:24 -0800 (PST) From: Declan McCullagh Subject: File 5--Australia drafts Net rating system Source - fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date--Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:25:45 -0500 (EST) From--Noah Robischon http://www.smh.com.au/computers/news/961105-news03.html November 5, 1996 Code will define net etiquette By JENNY SINCLAIR INTERNET users seeking guidance on net etiquette will soon be helped by a new industry code being developed to combat "offensive content and dishonest traders". Under the code, which is being developed by the Internet Industry Association of Australia (INTIAA), content will be classified under the existing code used by the Office of Film and Television Classification. "R" or "X" rated material would have to be clearly identified and provided only to registered subscribers. Service providers would have to ask new users their age before giving them unlimited access. On-line sales will also be regulated. Vendors of "physical products" would have to promise delivery within 28 days or offer refunds, and software vendors would have to give exact details of the software, including the file size. Under the code, personal information about users could not be collected unless users knew it was being done. [....] There are no regulations on business use of this kind of information, and Fair said INTIAA wanted the industry to be self-regulated rather than restricted by legislation. He said the rate of change of technology had made it difficult to come up with a relevant code. On July 1 next year, the Australian Broadcasting Authority will gain new powers over the Internet, and the new code will not be implemented before it gets ABA approval. Government consumer affairs bodies in most States have also helped draft the code. Dispute resolution would be by negotiation and mediation. The code will not be legally enforceable, but INTIAA hopes to encourage home-page providers and Internet service providers to conform by allowing them to use a seal of approval-type symbol which will identify "ethical" Internet bodies. Fair said the code of practice was "ground-breaking" and INTIAA's New Zealand counterpart had already asked to use it as a base for its own guidelines. Once the code is established, INTIAA will establish an advisory council to monitor it. The code of practice is on the Internet at www.intiaa.asn.au/codeintro. htm. It is up for public comment until the end of October. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 24 Nov 96 16:30 CST From: Cu Digest (tk0jut2@mvs.cso.niu.edu) Subject: File 6--Launching of "Electric Minds" (two posts) Date--Mon, 11 Nov 1996 19:55:13 -0500 (EST) From--The Electric Minds Team Subject--Launch of Electric Minds Dear Computing & Hi-Tech Magazine, This morning, prominent author and futurist Howard Rheingold launched ELECTRIC MINDS (http://www.minds.com), an online destination where experts and knowledge seekers gather to share news, analysis and opinion about technology, science, computers and their affect on peoples' lives. We are inviting individuals and users at technology and social computing sites to participate and share a common vision with us, as developing community is essential to long-term success of the Web and loyalty and connection between people is as important as ideas and information. By balancing content and online conversation, Electric Minds is driving the evolution of the Web from a publishing medium into a social medium - the Social Web. We are *not* just a magazine online - who would care?! We are a living, breathing, dynamic community where some of the smartest thinkers from around the Net will come each day to discuss, debate and connect with ideas, visions and news of our brave new Web world. More than product reviews or digital fashion, Electric Minds is about meaning and context. Recently, Jerry Michalski of Release 1.0 commented, "Most Web sites create content, context or conversations. Few do any worthwhile integration of all three elements, and none enrich the combined materials over time, and turn them into long-lived resources for use in other media. Electric Minds is the first company I have seen that is creating such an environment. Because it combines crafted points of view, snappy conversations and links to other such conversations across the Net, its system should have broad appeal." As a virtual community, we combine content from high-profile contributors with facilitated conversations using Web conferencing systems. Contributors for the site include HTML guru Laura Lemay, VRML co-creator Mark Pesce, former San Francisco Chronicle online commentator Bob Rossney, Virtual Reality author and Silicon Graphics VR evangelist Linda Jacobson and many others of similar repute. Rheingold himself wrote the bestselling book, The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier, which sold 100,000 copies in 6 languages. Furthermore, we are a global family, as we have contributors from Japan, Australia, France, Germany, England and across the US giving street-level reports on technology and digital culture as it happens. We are part university, part laboratory, part magazine and part thinktank. We look forward to your participation, feedback and enthusiasm in our new adventure - see you there! The Electric Minds Team (http://www.minds.com) ========================= Date--Fri, 22 Nov 96 12:34:57 PST From--kathleenm@ipri.com Subject--Howard Rheingold, www.minds.com, Virtual Communities Howard Rheingold, author, visionary and Internet pundit, and Randy Haykin, founding Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Yahoo! Corporation, have combined their expertise and experience in a new multiple media start-up, Electric Minds, Inc. Electric Minds (www.minds.com) is leading the transformation of the World Wide Web from a publishing medium to a social medium - the Social Web. Since launching last week, Electric Minds has registered 2200 users. The site has had visitors from 30,000 unique domains, and had over 400,000 pages viewed (average visitor sees 19 pages). Twenty percent of the traffic has been from other countries. Community is definitely the draw. Electric Minds is: *An online destination where experts and information seekers gather to share news, analysis, opinions and predictions about technology and its affect on our lives and future. * A comprehensive directory for finding virtual communities, a place to learn their rules, and a forum for discussing the social, political, cultural and economic implications of an online society *Five areas where community members can meet each other, access content from high-profile, well-known contributors and share their views with both. *A public service, a thinktank, a laboratory from which an inverse publishing model will emerge. Content from the site becomes the nucleus for other media - radio, television, books, and video. The site is a research, development and aggregation tool rather than a standalone product. This "inverse" publishing model is unique to Electric Minds. A few early reviews: "Howard Rheingold wrote the book, literally, on virtual communities. Now he's using his considerable expertise to and star power to attract sponsors and users to his experiment in social Web browsing" -- Cyberscope, Newsweek, November 25,1996 "The site (Electric Minds), which launched last week, is certainly the quintessence of online community." "Electric Minds is seeded with voluble moderators, uses nifty software that makes the chores of chat easy, and it's free." -- Josh Quittner, TIME, November 25,1996 "A grand, expensive and ambitious experiment, the culmination of years of imagining and pondering and months of serious tinkering,launched at 11:11 a.m. PST on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of this year(that is to say, just hours ago). Howard Rheingold's Electric Minds is off and running, and for what it's worth, let's just go ahead and get this out of the way: Electric Minds is the most promising solution proposed to meet the challenges currently facing online communications that I've seen in a long, long while." -- David Hudson, Rewired (www.rewired.com), November 11,1996 Please call or email me if you'd like more information. Best, Kathleen Miller 415.703.0400 x225 kathleenm@ipri.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 11:26:14 -0500 (EST) From: Noah Subject: File 7--IAHC Members Announced (fwd) From -Noah ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date--Tue, 12 Nov 1996 18:03:01 -0800 From--postel@isi.edu Date--Tue, 12 Nov 96 14:50:00 EST From--major@linus.isoc.org Contact: Internet Society 12020 Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, VA 20191-3429 TEL 703-648-9888 FAX 703-648-9887 E-mail info@isoc.org http://www.isoc.org NEW INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE NAMED TO STUDY DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM ISSUES WASHINGTON, DC, November 12, 1996 -- An Internet International Ad Hoc Committee (IAHC) has been named to resolve issues resulting from current international debate over a proposal to establish additional global registries and international Top Level Domain (iTLDs). "We are pleased to have attracted such a high level of leading international experts in their fields to examine these questions that are critical to the current and future growth of the Internet," Donald M. Heath, president and CEO of the Internet Society said in announcing the eleven-member committee. Heath will serve as chairman. Deliberations of the committee may lead to the establishment of new international Top Level Domains (iTLDs), adding to the current three-letter tags, such as .com, .net, and .org, that end many Internet email and World Wide Web addresses. Dr. Donald N. Telage, president of the Herndon, Virginia - based Network Solutions, Inc., which manages the InterNIC Registry administering the .com, .net, .edu, and .org top level domains, said: "Network Solutions has supported the registration process and the growth of the Internet since 1991. We have seen its evolution from a research and education tool to a powerful medium for global communication and collaboration. The National Science Foundation has played a critical role in the early governance activities, and we support the Internet Society's efforts to review issues critical to the future of Internet growth, evolution and governance. Network Solutions will participate and support this effort enthusiastically supplying our extensive operational knowledge as needed." Named to the new IAHC are: o Sally M. Abel, specializes in international trademark and trade name counseling, chairs the Internet Subcommittee of the International Trademark Association (INTA), and will represent that organization on the IAHC. Ms. Abel is the partner in charge of the Trademark Group of the law firm of Fenwick and West, a Palo Alto, Ca. firm specializing in high technology matters. O Dave Crocker, is co-founder of the Internet Mail Consortium, an industry trade association. He is also a principal with Brandenburg Consulting in Sunnyvale, Ca., a firm specializing in guiding the development and use of Internet applications. With ten years in the ARPA research community, ten years developing commercial network products and services, and extensive contributions to the Internet Engineering Task Force, he is considered an expert about the Internet, e-mail, electronic commerce, Internet operation and the Internet standards process. o Geoff Huston is the technical manager of Australia's Telstra Internet and is responsible for the architecture and operations of its service. He formerly was technical manager of the Australian Academic and Research Network, and was largely responsible for the introduction and subsequent development of the Internet into Australia. o David W. Maher, is a partner at the law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, of Chicago, IL, is a registered patent attorney and has extensive experience in intellectual property and entertainment law. Principal outside trademark counsel for several nationwide companies, he has served as special counsel to the American Bar Association for telecommunications matters. o Perry E. Metzger is the president of New York - based Piermont Information Systems Inc., a consulting firm specializing in communications and computer systems security. He has worked with the New York financial community for many years and is active in the Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) security area, chairing the group's Simple Public Key Infrastructure working group. o Jun Murai is associate professor of Faculty of Environmental Information at Keio University in Tokyo. He developed JUNET, Japan's first UUCP network and the WIDE Internet, Japan's first IP network. He is president of the Japan Network Information Center (JPNIC) and serves as adjunct professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations University in Tokyo. o Hank Nussbacher, is an independent networking consultant, currently works with IBM Israel as Internet Technology Manager and has been responsible for all aspects in establishing IBM Israel as a major ISP in Israel. He also consults to the Israeli inter-university consortium and is on the board of directors of the Internet Society of Israel. o Robert Shaw is an advisor on Global Information Infrastructure (GII) issues at the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). The ITU, based in Geneva, Switzerland, is a United Nations treaty organization within which governments and the private sector coordinate global telecom networks and services. o George Strawn is with the US National Science Foundation (NSF), which has funded Internet development for research and education. Mr. Strawn has been involved with the NSF's Internet activities for the last five years and also co-chairs the Federal Networking Council, a US government committee coordinating inter-agency Internet activities, including funding for administrative activities, such as the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). o Albert Tramposch is senior legal counsellor at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in Geneva. WIPO is a United Nations organization which has responsibility for the promotion of the protection of intellectual property throughout the world. It also administers various treaties dealing with legal and administrative aspects of intellectual property, including the international registration of trademarks. In addition, Stuart Levi, a partner in the New York Office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and the head of the firm's Computer and Information Technology Practice, will serve as outside counsel supporting the IAHC. "The IAHC will be charged with fairly and openly looking at the complex issues surrounding the current domain name and registry situation, including trademark and infringement, economics and administration of registry operations, dispute policies, fees and iTLDs," Heath said. He anticipates the Committee reaching reasonable consensus on issues surfaced, sometime in January. A subset of the IAHC will seek to implement its recommendations very shortly after that. To meet its aggressive schedule, the widely dispersed group will primarily operate online, over the Internet. Interested parties throughout the Internet world will be able to participate in the IAHC's process, through an electronic mail list service and a Web site that are being established. Discussions, evaluations and decisions will be available for public inspection. An archive, and relevant documents, will be available public comment at the Web site which will be established by November 15 at http://www.iahc.org. 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