> The US Post Office makes no mention of this requirement,
> which is still
> fairly new as far as I know.
Export restrictions have been around forever. They
exist in almost every country and are (I would guess)
mostly ignored (probably through ignorance) almost
everywhere.
While I was at DEC, the export compliance training
was mandatory for everyone every so many months
or years (2 years I think). The story was that
someone had shipped something (possibly a VAX)
to someone seemingly legit who then passed it along
to someone he shouldn't have. Big fine, mandatory
compliance training.
> So as long as the USPS is not enforcing it, then what does it really
> matter?
I think it will be your govenrment who actually enforce it :-)
It will olny matter once you get caught - pretty much like
all laws :-)
If anything, this one has been toned down a bit in the
last few years (at least on the US side). Super computers
(like, say, an entry level mobile phone these days :-)) are
no longer classed as nuclear munitions so you can sell
them to anyone (except people on the DPL and presumably
people who know where the banned countries are).
> Once Bush and his ill lot is out of office it's not going to matter
> anyway. The US PATRIOT act is going to be relegated to the
> shitheap of
> history (along with the rest of his putrid administration).
It's nothing to do with the PATRIOT act - it has been
around for much longer than that. It's all to do with
not selling to your Cold War enemies. All toned down
because big biz realised that if they could not sell
computers outside the US someone else would :-)
Ecommerce helped too. If the PATRIOT act gets in the
way of big business, it will go the same way.
Not that I care - I'm in the UK ... I presume we
have our own DPL equivalent but I have no real
idea :-)
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini_at_iee.org
Received on Wed Jul 07 2004 - 19:08:27 BST