Week 9: Law & Internet Seminar (LAW 745)

Introduction to Digital Cash, E-Commerce and E-Banking

Reading:

1. Read the remainder of Froomkin, Flood Control on the Information Ocean
2. Robert M. Howe, Banking in the Network Economy
3. John Muller, Selected Legal Issues in Issuance of Electronic Money
4. Ira Magaziner et al, The Framework for Global Electronic Commerce.  This is the White House's latest word on global Internet Commerce policy.  Contrast European Commissioner Martin Bangeman, A New World Order for Global Communications

Doing:

1. Point your browser at the list of Payment mechanisms designed for the Internet and explore a little.
2. Work on those papers...rough drafts due next week!

Optional

• A cornucopia of interesting material can be found in Hal Varian's The Information Economy
• Take a look at the SET Protocol
• Visit the Digicash e-cash homepage
• Open Information Interchange Initiative (OII), Electronic Payment Support Mechanisms
• A Market Ecology for Electronic Commerce
• Internet Value Systems and Monetary Policy
• Roy Davies, Money - Past, Present & Future
• W3C and CommerceNet Joint Electronic Payment Initiative
• Sirene's external links to Electronic Commerce, Payment Systems, and Security