Trust Infrastructures Panel Discussion

Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg - Cecilia Magnusson Sjöberg, LL.D. is Associate professor at the Faculty of Law, Stockholm University. She has had 15 years of practical experience of developing and using IT-based legal information systems, including both the public and the private sector as well as participation in EU-projects. She gained her doctorate in 1992 with a thesis on legal automation in the Swedish public sector. Within the field of SGML/XML her major work - the Corpus Legis project - is described in the book "Critical Factors in Legal Document Management: A study of standardised markup languages" (Stockholm: Jure, 1998, www.juridicum.su.se/iri/corpus) The major research project she is currently involved in investigates the possibilities of cross-fertilisation of advanced methods for security enhancement and applications of XML in the legal domain. She is presently course director for the international Master's Programme in Law and Information Technology at Stockholm university in which the development and management of information systems are studied in a legal perspective (www.juridicum.su.se/iri/studentinfo/).

Greg FitzPatrick - A computer veteran of 25 years, Greg does research in the evolvement of end-to-end markets and super directories. He is an adviser to the Swedish government's Information Technology Commission, a contributing author to the Swedish Governmental Enquiry on Infrastructure, an adviser to the National Education Agency and the Swedish National Tourist Council. He is the initiator and coauthor of the SkiCal directory markup language. He is currently assisting the Swedish labor board in the development of an end-to-end labor market and writing a book about the rise and fall of the database.

Joseph Reagle - Joseph Reagle is a Research Engineer at the MIT Lab for Computer Science where he serves as a W3C public policy analyst, and Working Group Chair for the joint IETF/W3C XML-Digital-Signature Working Group and the W3C XML Encryption Working Group. At the W3C, he has also worked on privacy, content-selection/free-speech, and intellectual property issues as they relate to the Internet. Mr. Reagle has a Computer Science degree from UMBC and a Masters from MIT's Technology and Policy Program, where he was a Research Assistant at the Research Program on Communication Policy. Joseph has been a Resident Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at the Harvard Law School where he wrote about Web-data schema design and contract law, computer agents and legal agency, and Internet culture and democratic/anarchist principles. He's also done short consulting projects for Open Market (electronic commerce protocols) McCann-Erickson (Internet and interactive media) and go-Digital (Internet gambling).