26 February 1997
Note: These PDF-formatted public comments have been converted to HTML. See http://jya.com/bxapctoc.htm

24 February 1997
Source: http://www.bxa.doc.gov/pubcomts.htm

On December 30, 1996, the Bureau of Export Administration issued an interim rule amending the Export Administration Regulations entitled, "Encryption Items Transferred From the U.S. Munitions List to the Commerce Control List." The rule solicited comments from the public for consideration in development of the final rule. The period for submission of comments closed on February 13. Below is an index of the public comments which the Bureau received. Each index entry is linked to a PDF file which contains an image of the comment from the named individual, company, or group.

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WARNING: These files comprise 25 megabytes of data. Each page is approximately 28k. Each PDF file contains all of the comments of one commentor. We have noted the size of each file. Download time for the larger files could be substantial depending upon the speed of your connection. To read these files, you will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader.

1. University of Waterloo, 32K
2. John and Laren Navas, 35K
3. Cylink, 49K
4. Motorola, 212K
5. Secure Computing, 78K
6. Tuttle and Taylor, 313K
7. Lyman C. Welch, 78K
8. ISTAC, 138K
9. American Association for the Advancement of Science, 230K
10. Trusted information Systems, Inc., 240K
11. IBM, 251K
12. Hughes Electronics, 250K
13. Industry Coalition on Technology Transfer (ICOTT), 196K
14. Murphy & Weber, 120K
15. Steptoe & Johnson LLP, 229K
16. America Online, Inc., 238K
17. Citibank, 1296K
18. NCR, 104K
19. American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), 138K
20. United States Council for International Business, 449K
21. V-One, 134K
22. William A. Root, 525K
23. Thoroughbred Security Solutions, Ltd., 181K
24. Microsoft, 2783K
25. Commercial Internet Exchange Association, 340K
26. The Direct Marketing Association, Inc., 126K
27. Technical Communications Corp., 11896K
28. Software Publishers Association, 488K
29. Alston & Bird, 380K
30. Association for Computing Machinery, 417K
31. National Association of Manufacturers, 269K
32. Computer & Communications Industry Association, 374K
33. Dewey Ballantine, 284K
34. American Bankers Association, 482K
35. Steptoe & Johnson for Visa USA Inc. and Visa International, 192K
36. Winston & Strawn for ICOTT, 204K
37. Sun Microsystems, 331K
38. Key Escrow Working Group, 408K
39. Hewlett Packard, 336K
40. Scientific-Atlanta, Inc., 158K
41. Timothy Hinds, 66K
42. Information Security Incorporated, 119K
43. Securities Industry Association, 315K

[Note: list obtained 24 February 1997, 1700 ET; check BXA site for any additions]

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