Netscape download requirements

[Peter D. Junger]

"Julian Burke" writes:

: 
: Jeff Weinstein wrote:
: 
: >  We received written permission from the State Department for our
: >download verification mechanism.
: 
: What exactly is the reason for Netscape asking for the name, address, 
: e-mail address, and telephone number of anyone who wishes to download 
: the US-browser? If I remember correctly MIT in distributing PGP only 
: asks that you affirmatively assent to obeying export laws (and the 
: terms of the rsa license).
: 
: I have not heard at any point that the MIT system does not meet the 
: legal requirements of ITAR. Is there perhaps some other reason 
: Netscape wishes to have this information? 

When I asked the agent of the NSA who is seconded to the Office of
Defense Trade Controls to answer questions about the application of
the ITAR to the cryptographic software what the authority for the MIT
system was, she denied that the MIT system had been approved (or
disapproved) by the Office of Defense Trade Controls, although I
gather that the people at MIT may have spoken informally with someone.

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Peter D. Junger--Case Western Reserve University Law School--Cleveland, OH
Internet:  junger at pdj2-ra.f-remote.cwru.edu    junger at samsara.law.cwru.edu