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Re: Personal use exception to ITAR/EAR
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Mon Jan 6 15:05:55 1997
To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
Date: Mon, 06 Jan 1997 12:12:33 -0500
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
Someone wrote to the Cypherpunks list in the last day or so (I seem to
have
mislaid the message) asking what happened to the ITAR's personal use
exemption. The introductory comments to the new 12/30/96 regs indicate
that:
"License Exceptions TMP and BAG effectively replace the Department of
State's personal use exemption." (Federal Register, p. 68575)
License exception TMP is described at 15 CFR 740.4, and BAG is describ
ed at
15 CFR 740.9, both of which are available via John Young's helpful
hypertext version of the EARs at <http://jya.com/740.htm>.
I haven't waded through TMP yet -- it's arcane, to say the least -- but
BAG (which is in 740.14 now, at least on jya's page) looks to be useless
for many of us. Section (c)(1) notes that the software must be ``owned
by the individuals'' -- which presumably excludes things like corporate-owned
cryptographic software.
