Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:15:40 +0200 (SAST) From: "Geoff Rehmet" <geoffr@is.co.za> To: Patrick Bihan-Faou <patrick@mindstep.com> Cc: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT Message-ID: <20000119071540.75568.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <01fa01bf61d5$7162c550$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> from Patrick Bihan-Faou at "Jan 18, 2000 10:26:12 am"
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Patrick Bihan-Faou writes : [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > Hi, > > If we are changing the meaning of "USA_RESIDENT", could we replace it by > something else completely. I know that the USA are the center of the > universe ;-), but... > > It seems to me that a things progress, the crypto regulation gets more > complicated everyday. Why not have a "CRYPTO_COUNTRY" variable that could be > set to "USA" "FRANCE" "CANADA" or "other" based where you live and weither > special consideration must be taken relative to the crypto code ? Hmm, i would also look at something similar - rather generalise towards countries that are crypto-unfriendly (like the USA, France, etc.) g. -- Geoff Rehmet, The Internet Solution geoffr@is.co.za; geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za; csgr@freebsd.org tel: +27-83-292-5800 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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