In assigning conference participants to breakout groups, we have tried to honor as many first choice requests as possible, followed by second and third choices. Breakout group assignments also reflect the configuration of rooms available to the conference, the time we received a registration [earlier registrations were more likely to receive their first choice], and our goal to ensure that each group represents a diversity of views. As of the time of initial assignments, over 70% of conference registrants received their first choice and over 90% received their first or second choice.
A. DEFINING DATABASES
| Vicki E. Allums | National Public Radio |
| Marc Ashley | Intermetrics |
| Garland E. Autrey | Kirkland & Ellis |
| Dan Duncan | Information Industry Association |
| Carol Herndon | Disclosure Incorporated |
| Masaaki Kawase | Toppan Printing Company |
| Molly Leahy | Newspaper Association of America |
| Jessica Litman | Wayne State University Law School |
| Teodoro Maldonado | Embassy of Ecuador |
| John T. Mitchell | Jenkins & Gilchrist |
| Robert Oakley | Georgetown University |
| Jeffrey E. Ostrow | Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett |
| Lisa Parlock | The McGraw-Hill Companies |
| Roger E. Schechter | George Washington University |
| Eric Schneider | Cleveland Heights, Ohio |
| Matthew J. Toussant | Chemical Abstracts Service |
| William T. Fryer, III | University of Baltimore Law School |
B. THE EU DIRECTIVE, TRIPS, AND US LAW
| Valerie Atkinson | Kyle, Texas |
| Danielle Bouvet | Industry Canada |
| Christopher R. Costa | Silver Spring, Maryland |
| Gary R. Edwards | Evenson McKeown Edwards & Lenaham |
| Sibylle Frucht | Delegation of the European Commission |
| Llewellyn J. Gibbons | Franklin Pierce Law Center |
| Morton D. Goldberg | Cowan Liebowitz & Litman |
| Garfield Goodrum | Sutherland, Asbill & Brennan |
| Lawrence G. Kurland | Bryan Cave LLP |
| Jennifer B. Lucas | BNA Electronic Commerce & Law Reporter |
| Steven J. Metalitz | Smith & Metalitz, LLP |
| Kristen Rivas-Wallis | Fujitsu, Ltd. |
| David Seidman | U.S. Department of Justice |
| Mark Traphagen | Software Publishers Association |
| Alex V. Zalesov | Russian Trade Mission to the US |
C. ISSUES IN PUBLICLY FUNDED DATA
| Andrea Cooper-Finkle | American Medical Association |
| Kathy L. Covert | FGDC Secretariat |
| John S. Gardenier | National Center for Health Statistics |
| Robert F. Gnuse | Oblon, Spivak, McClelland, et al. |
| Michael P. Hoffman | U.S. Department of Energy |
| Richard Johnson | Congressional Information Service |
| Charles A. Julian | National Technology Transfer Center |
| Ann Lavie | Insurance Services Offices, Inc. |
| Gail H. Littlejohn | LEXIS-NEXIS |
| Eric Massant | Reed Elsevier |
| Lawrence Pettinger | U.S. Geological Service |
| Harold M. Schoolman | National Institutes of Health |
| Henry Shands | U.S. Department of Agriculture |
| Andrew Shriner | West Group |
| Shari Steele | Electronic Frontier Foundation |
D. HR 2652
| Pru Adler | Association of Research Libraries |
| Jon Baumgarten | Proskauer Rose LLP |
| Barbara S. Blaine | Bryan Case LLP |
| Cindy Braddon | The McGraw-Hill Companies |
| Bruce Couchman | Industry Canada |
| Michael W. Dennis | Chemical Abstracts Service |
| Mark S. Frankel | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Carole Ganz-Brown | National Science Foundation |
| Michael K. Kirk | American Intellectual Property Law Association |
| Michael R. Klipper | Meyer & Klipper |
| Makoto Kono | Fujitsu, Ltd. |
| Brian L. Longest | Great Falls, Virginia |
| Sherry Oshiver | U.S. Geological Service |
| Linda R. Raber | Chemical & Engineering News |
| Malla Pollack | Florida Coastal School of Law |
| Carol Risher | Association of American Publishers |
| John R. Thomas | George Washington University |
| John C. Vaughn | Association of American Universities |
E. EFFECTS ON BUSINESS AND POSSIBLE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES
| David K. Ades | American Institute of Physics |
| Benjamin W. Boley | Shea & Gardner |
| Ron Cariola | Intermetrics |
| Christina A. Carvalho | Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn |
| Edwin Komen | Cleary, Komen & Lewis |
| Arvind K. Krishna | Intermetrics |
| Mary Lally | Insurance Services Offices, Inc. |
| Eric Lee | Commercial Internet Exchange |
| Lynne Levine | Warren Publishing |
| Mary Ellen Mogee | Mogee Research |
| Susan C. Munsat | Lichtman, Trister, Singer & Ross |
| Marc Pearl | Information Technology Association of America |
| Karen B. Possner | BellSouth |
| David A. Rice | Roger Williams University School of Law |
| Michelle M. Shanahan | National Public Radio |
| Albert Simmonds | R.R. Bowker |
| Barbara L. Twardzik | Eli Lilly & Co. |
| Eric J. Weierstall | Syracuse, New York |
F. EMPIRICAL ECONOMIC RESEARCH ISSUES
| Cynthia Banicki | U.S. Patent and Trademark Office |
| Edward Black | Computer and Communication Industry Association |
| Sandy Block | IBM Corporation |
| John Crosby | Special Libraries Association |
| Adam Eisgrau | American Library Association |
| Alex Fowler | American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| Bruce T. Fraser | Tallahassee, Florida |
| Phillip Giordano | U.S. Department of Justice |
| Brian Kahin | Office of Science and Technology Policy |
| Christopher J. Kelly | U.S. Department of Justice |
| Clarisa Long | Harvard University |
G. ISSUES IN SOLE SOURCE DATA
| Mary Alice Baish | Edward B. Williams Law Library |
| Jean Cantell | Dun & Bradstreet |
| Andrew L. Deutsch | Piper & Marbury |
| Joseph L. Ebersole | Washington, D.C |
| Michael J. Fanelli | Federal Trade Commission |
| Gregory M. Grazevich | Modern Language Association |
| Leif Johnson | West Group |
| Nikki Miller | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints |
| David Mirchin | Silver Platter Information, Inc. |
| Paul F. McQuade | Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro |
| Janice M. Strachan | Plant Variety Protection Office |
| Chip Tangen | Podesta Associates |