By editorial@silicon.com, 18 September 1998 17:18
NEWS Europe, the US and Japan have inched closer to consensus on the future development of the Internet, at the ninth annual International Information Industry Congress (IIIC) in Berlin. Delegates at the IIIC - a voluntary body of IT industry associations - reached broad agreement on issues such as the need to guard against the misuse of personal and financial data and the need for a globally harmonised framework for ecommerce, free of special taxation. However, there remain sharp divisions over security, with disagreement over the US government's policy of restricting the export of high-strength encryption software. No accords were signed, although the congress issued a set of recommendations, which were backed by the Organisation for Economic Development and the World Trade Organisation, along with government representatives from Canada, the EU and Japan.
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