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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 13:25:30 -0800
- From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: X.25 Switch Vendor Info Please
- Reply-To: rpw3@sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
- Message-ID: <telecom12.919.6@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 919, Message 6 of 14
- Lines: 26
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- jchen@ctt.bellcore.com writes:
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- > A foreign company would like to purchase a few small X.25 switches
- > from an US company. I am collecting information for them.
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- Be aware that X.25 packet switches fall under the COCOM export
- controls. You will need an export license, and can't ship at all to
- some countries. As Phil Karn said at the time:
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- > In case anyone is interested in seeing the complete text of the new
- > export control regs, they appeared in the Federal Register on August
- > 29, 1991.
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- > Pay particular attention to page 42871. This is where "datagram" and
- > "dynamic adaptive routing" technologies are mentioned. Read it and
- > weep (or laugh, as the case may be.)
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- "Dynamic adaptive routing" is considered a strategic dual-use item,
- because it can make it harder for our military to knock out the other
- guy's C-cubed.
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-
- Rob Warnock, MS-9U/510 rpw3@sgi.com (415)390-1673
- Silicon Graphics, Inc., 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, CA 94043
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