Simon Spero writes: : On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Peter D. Junger wrote: : : > : > Don't blame this on my being a lawyer; blame it on some very sick : > people in the Office of Defense Trade Controls and in the NSA. : : I think it's unfair to call the people at the ODTC and the NSA sick; : during the cold war, such restrictions did make some sense; in : particular, controlling the export of high-performance encryption : hardware does make it harder for other countries to deploy ubiquitous : strong encryption, particularly in the less developed countries, and : particulalry for chips that required exotic fabrication (the soviet union : never had really good mass-production facilities). The ones I was suggesting are sick are the ones who drafted the definition of ``export'' and of ``technical data'' in the ITAR. Would you consider it more appropriate if I called them perverse? -- Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH Internet: junger@pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu junger@samsara.law.cwru.edu