Mr. Karn said: /From: Phil Karn <karn@qualcomm.com> /To: SAMUEL.KAPLIN@warehouse.mn.org />Is it me or are there a disproportionate amount of legal/government/military/ />types on this list? Keeping this in mind, do you really think any of our />comments will go anywhere but in the old circular file? /My thoughts exactly. The committee's classification/clearance policy /was undoubtedly intended to skew its membership much more than to /protect any legitimate government secret. After all, they're supposed /to be discussing openly available civilian encryption technologies. /Funny how the most obvious, no-brainer public policy questions always /seem to generate the most controversy... And what, pray tell, is per se wrong with "legal types"? Why do you think Bollinger, Hellman, Neumann, Patel are knee-jerk non-liberals? (Or even Civiletti for that matter, he's reasonable). OK there are no *radicals* but what do you expect from the establishment? I think you will get a respectful hearing if you make sensible comments. I have no doubt that you personallly will do the latter. SOLONg