On NPR's "Talk of the Nation" yesterday, Bill Reinsch, who is an undersecretary for Export Administration in the Department of Commerce, stated that a change in the export regs should be expected around Labor Day. The context was that the 'promise to compromise your future products, and we'll let you export un-escrowed DES until the end of 1998' deal is running out, and BXA wants business to know (slightly) ahead of time what the new regimen will be. The entire ToTN article can be heard on Real Audio: http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/archives/1998/current.html Peter Trei ptrei@securitydynamics.com