From: David Sternlight <david@sternlight.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 1996 17:03:19 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: CDT Policy Post 2.27 - No New News on Crypto: Gore Restates
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At 11:10 AM -0700 7/16/96, Arun Mehta wrote:
>At 10:13 15/07/96 -0700, David Sternlight wrote:
>>actions in the Netherlands, the UK, and in the European
>>Parliament suggest that an independent European escrow initiative might
>>happen within a year. When it does it will be a trivial matter to harmonize
>>it with some US offering. The mills in various countries are grinding too
>>coincidentally for my taste.
>
>I don't doubt that the Europeans are quite likely to toe the American line --

Your comment is historically inaccurate. When "the Americans" came around
to Europe selling Clipper, most told them to go peddle their papers. Then
independent European escrow developments arose in a number of countries.
This is a European line if it is anything, since there is no mandatory
escrow requirement for domestic crypto in the US, nor has one reached the
advanced state of play it has in the UK, Netherlands, European parliament
(or is it the Council?), etc.

There is no "toeing the American line" in this matter except in the minds
of America-bashers.

David