My apologies to the list: My original statement was in error. Wesley
correctly describes what countries we block and why.

-Nick Johnson

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Wesley Chun (Google)
<[email protected]<wesc%[email protected]>
> wrote:

> Cuba, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Syria, and Sudan are a magical group of
> countries known as the "T-6" or "Country Group E:1". (it used to be
> "T-7" and included Libya.). Businesses based in the US are not allowed
> to "export" products that fall under the ENC license exception to such
> countries. ENC includes "encryption items" (includes source code,
> technology and "open cryptographic interface") and "encryption
> commodities" (software and components, network infrastructure
> encryption products, commercial source code and general purpose
> toolkits):
>
> More on E:1 and ENC
> http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/lechart1_sec508.htm (scroll down to
> bottom for definition of E:1 and the license exception type "ENC")
> http://www.ecustoms.com/ecustoms-glossary.cfm (look up an easier to
> read definition of the ENC license exception)
> https://bxa.ntis.gov/whatsnewcgi.html?filename=countrygrpe1.asc (see
> "SUMMARY" section)
>
> Info about US-based technology companies and this restriction:
>
> http://www.cisco.com/web/about/doing_business/legal/global_export_trade/faqs.html
> http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1655904
>
> The bottom line is that this is not a corporate decision... it's
> federal law.
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
> "Core Python Programming", Prentice Hall, (c)2007,2001
> "Python Fundamentals", Prentice Hall, (c)2009
>   http://corepython.com
>
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