From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 04:44:12 +0800
To: cypherpunks@EINSTEIN.ssz.com
Subject: Baker on Gilmore's Foil of Wassenaar
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Response to a forward of John Gilmore's message to UK Crypto:

Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 09:50:19 -0500
From: <sbaker@steptoe.com>
To: <ukcrypto@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@steptoe.com

Baker & Hurst, "The Limits of Trust -- Governments, Cryptography, and
Electronic
Commerce" is now available from

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9041106359