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Identifying E-Commerce Barriers
The Department of Commerce, on behalf of the Subgroup on Legal Barriers to Electronic Commerce (``Legal Barriers Subgroup'') of the U.S. Government Working Group on Electronic Commerce, requests public comments and suggestions concerning policies, laws or regulations that need to be adapted in order to eliminate barriers to and promote electronic commerce, electronic services, and electronic transactions.
President Clinton created the Working Group on November 29, 1999 (see the 12/3/99 issue of the SSTI Weekly Digest) to identify ways the federal government can increase U.S. electronic commerce activity. The Department of Commerce was given lead responsibility for the group’s work.
The agency has identified a dozen questions for public response or input. Comments are requested by March 17, 2000. (See the February 1, 2000 Federal Register, pages 4801-4803). According to the Register announcement, comments will be accepted via the Web at http://www.ecommerce.gov Alternatively, electronic submissions may be sent as documents attached to E-mail messages addressed to ebarriers@ita.doc.gov Submissions made as E-mail attachments or submitted on floppy disks should be in WordPerfect, Microsoft Word or ASCII format. For more information, contact Kenneth Clark, phone: 202-482-3843; E-mail kclark@doc.gov .