From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 18 23:15:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 310731526E for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 23:15:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from geoff@rucus.ru.ac.za) Received: (qmail 75569 invoked by uid 268); 19 Jan 2000 07:15:40 -0000 Message-ID: <20000119071540.75568.qmail@rucus.ru.ac.za> Subject: Re: Mandating USA_RESIDENT In-Reply-To: <01fa01bf61d5$7162c550$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> from Patrick Bihan-Faou at "Jan 18, 2000 10:26:12 am" To: Patrick Bihan-Faou Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 09:15:40 +0200 (SAST) Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: "Geoff Rehmet" From: "Geoff Rehmet" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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