Wassenaar question

[Nicholas Bohm]

At 12:16 PM 2/17/1999 +0000, Mark Carroll wrote:

>Today I received mail from the DTI saying that the fourth Wassenaar
>Arrangement Plenary agreement imposes no new restrictions on the export of
>cryptography technology.
>
>This is somewhat at variance with what I remember; could someone set one
>of us right? Maybe I'm confusing rumour with fact.
>
>Ta. (-: I'll go look again and see what's posted at the Wassenaar site...

The following, obtained from the Wassenaar site, appears to be the basis on
which the EU member states propose to introduce new legislation restricting
the export of technology (including cryptographic technology) in intangible
form:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

STATEMENTS OF UNDERSTANDING AND VALIDITY NOTES

General Technology Note (WG2 GTN TWG/WP1 Revised 2) 

It is understood that Member Governments are expected to exercise controls
on intangible "technology" as far as the scope of their legislation will
allow.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

No doubt the DTI would say that this was not really part of the Plenary
Agreement!

Regards,

Nicholas Bohm

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