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One of my contacts, from the eCommerce eAcademic world, asked me for suggestions with respect to a project he is working on. It is cut & pasted below. I felt like my qualifications were lacking in giving a good answer beyond my past remarks about computer abuse out of control followed by an explosion of new regulations that ordinary mortals have a hard time tracking, so I asked about broadcasting this to other contacts & he said yes, so for that reason I am sharing his e-mail address.

If you interested in commenting on this, be sure to reply to Joseph directly. I am also somewhat interested.

Joseph wrote:

From: <Jsavirimuthu@aol.com>;
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2002 04:01:46 EDT
Subject: electronic contracts and law

Dear Al
I am presently reviewing UNICTRAL's draft proposals for 'formation of contracts' on the Internet between B2B. There is a section in the work that deals with B2B models. Do you have any information that will allow me to anticipate some of the practical/technical issues which both UNCITRAL and the UK (Regs 2002) need to be aware of?

Any assistance will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance
Joseph

The Liverpool Law School
University of Liverpool
Chatham Street
Liverpool
L69 7ZS
email: jsaviri@liverpool.ac.uk
Tel: 0151 794 2806
Fax: 0151 794 2829

Al replied to this

I asked Joseph for some urls to help people put his project in perspective, see what has been done so far, so that it is then more obvious what is missing.

Al wrote:

Joseph

If you will grant me permission, I can forward your question to other e-contacts who may be better qualified than myself to address this. They include people whom I have met on discussion groups focused on a variety of e-Commerce e-Academic topics. Professionally, I am a computer technical person residing in the USA, with wide ranging interests, but lack of specific expertise of the kind you are currently looking for.

Joseph's reply

Dear Al: Thanks for your prompt and helpful response. Yes please do pass on my request. I have read through the UK Government's website and looked at the response to the consultations conducted last year.

The relevant websites that might be of relevance:

1. A summary of the history of the discussions leading to the creation of the Working Group can be found in A/CN/WG.IV/WP.95 paragraphs1-8. See www.uncitral.org.

2. The followingpapers can be found in the website: A/CN.9/WG.IV/WP.89,A/CN.9/WG.IV/WP.90, A/CN.9/WG.IV/WP.91, A/CN.9/WG.IV/WP.95. Also the comments by the International Chamber of Commerce in response to the Draft Convention can be found in A/CN.9/WG.IV/WP.96

3. See A/CN.9/360 and Guide to Modern Law of Electronic Commerce paragraph 7 (available at www.uncitral.org)

4. Directive2000/31/EC on Certain Legal Aspects of Information Society Services, inparticular electronic commerce.
<http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/en/lif/dat/2000/en_300L0031.html >

5. Also the UK Regulations can be found:
http://www.dti.gov.uk/cii/ecommerce/europeanpolicy/ecommerce_directive_chapter5.shtml

Regards
Joseph