[117718] in Cypherpunks
Re: PECSENC Report Up
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Broiles)
Thu Sep 9 11:43:14 1999
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 08:21:10 -0700
From: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
To: Bill Stewart <bill.stewart@pobox.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Message-ID: <19990909082110.B10339@ideath.parrhesia.com>
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In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990908181836.009b9680@idiom.com>; from Bill Stewart on Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 06:18:36PM -0700
Reply-To: Greg Broiles <gbroiles@netbox.com>
On Wed, Sep 08, 1999 at 06:18:36PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
> Dorothy Denning's site now says
> "Liberalization 2000, the recommendations of the
> President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC),
> is temporarily unavailable.
> According to FACA, it was not to have been distributed
> and discussed with the Press until after it was approved by the full PEC
> and sent to the President.
I believe that "FACA" refers to the "Federal Advisory Committee Act" (5
USC Appendix 2, Sections 1-15), legislation which I've heard about but
not read. It strikes me as plausible that members of the subcommittee
aren't supposed to release the results of their investigations and
deliberations until they've been vetted by the full committee. Perhaps
other list members are better read on this topic.
I have been able to find this online summary of the FACA -
<http://www.fws.gov/laws/federal/summaries/faca.html> but don't know
enough about the area to comment meaningfully on the accuracy or
completeness of the summary.
--
Greg Broiles
gbroiles@netbox.com
