Re: Netscape download requirements

[David Sternlight <david@sternlight.com>]

At 12:34 PM -0700 7/20/96, Adam Shostack wrote:
>	Don't screw with the system, and I can bet how the policy
>review will come out.
>
>	We just had a policy review; the National Academy of Sciences
>had a very prestigious group do a review of our Cryptographic Policy.
>It suggested liberalization.
>
>	Clearly, someone didn't like that, so the Powers That Be are
>doing another policy review in the hopes of getting a review that they
>like.  If they don't get something they like, there will be another
>policy review, chaired by Loius Freeh, and taking testimony from such
>prestigious cryptographers as Dr. Denning.

This is not a technocracy, and the NAS is not a government policy review
body but an advisory one.

Having said that, your cynicism is probably well founded. :-)

David