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Re: Commodity Jurisdiction success for Kerberos Bones!
John Gilmore wrote (a week or so back):
> Re:
> REQUEST FOR COMMODITY JURISDICTION FOR: "Kerberos 900104
> bones.tar.Z patchlevel 6" software program
> [...]
> I encourage people and companies who are interested in export issues
> to submit a commodity jurisdiction request for some software that you
> want to export, and go through the process. In public. The State
> Department and NSA don't publish their guidelines for what is exportable
> and what isn't, so the only way we-the-public are going to find out
> is by asking, and then telling each other.
Are these guidelines, which are undoubtedly written down *somewhere*,
exempt from disclosure under FOIA? If not, then this might be good
way to go; if the claim of exemption appears weak, it may be worth
litigating. Getting actual disclosure of the guidelines may be worth
quite a bit, since not only does it inform us-the-public about the
rules, it can make it easier to sue the government for not abiding by
its own rules (if it violates them).
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Michael C. Berch
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