Baker on Gilmore's Foil of Wassenaar

John Young jya at pipeline.com
Tue Dec 8 12:44:12 PST 1998



Response to a forward of John Gilmore's message to UK Crypto:

Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:50:19 -0500
From: <sbaker at steptoe.com>
To: <ukcrypto at maillist.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re:Foil to Wassenaar 
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I would only add this caution.  I think John is wrong in giving legal 
advice that Wassenaar is not binding without implementing legislation.  
That is an American approach to these matters. I believe that many, 
perhaps most, Wassenaar members derive their authority to regulate 
exports directly from the arrangement itself.  For that reason, I would 
not assume that everyone everywhere is free to ignore the new 
restrictions until some further law or regulation is promulgated.

Stewart Baker
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
202.429.6413
sbaker at steptoe.com

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Electronic
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