The FEI and its member companies are keen to engage in further discussion with you and your officials. More recently in the last three months FEI member companies began receiving invitations to meetings with officials from the DTI and other parts of government. The meetings in late January and early February included officials from the Home Office and other agencies. Current indications are that further invitations will be forthcoming. At an international level this should include working together to promote confidence in the legal enforceability of cross-border transactions and to support a variety of authentication technologies and implementation models.
Information infrastructures are critical to public safety and national economic well-being.
The OECD Guidelines for the Security of Information Systems should be the basis for national approaches to information security. Governments should provide advice on threats, vulnerabilities, and appropriate security responses to ensure that critical information infrastructures are protected. It would be helpful to receive a note expanding on these concerns, especially in relation to the draft EU directive on copyright. Examples of materials which may be made available over the Internet include computer programs, sound and video recordings, photographs and literary works, which in this context will include most web pages. For many of these works the right-holder will expect to receive payment, and even when he does not, as is likely to be the case for most web pages, he will nonetheless expect his rights to be respected.