eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) (11/10/85)
Recently, NASA has been cracking down on the distribution of information by computer tape. I would like to offer apologies to those people who mailed me blank tapes to obtain updates of my multiprocessor/ distributed processing bibliography. I have a dozen such tapes being processed from institutions like NYU, Amdahl/Fujitsu, DEC, and the like. I hope you get them in the next couple of weeks (I will send the most up-to-date copy). In the past, we just mailed your tape back to you. Now, I have to get four signatures and the tape must be inspected by our Technology Utilization office. They want to prevent the dissemination of information overseas to certain governments. I believe this is in response to comments made by the Sec. of the DOD, Mr. Weinberger, about NASA being a big technology leak to other countries. ARPAnet FTP is still the best way to get a copy, it's too big to realistically UUCP. As an aside, when I began my work, I was asked if I desired to make the distribution unlimited. I was informed the standard policy of the US Government was to delay all foreign distribution 1 year. I feel this is a ridculuous policy in this area of research. From the Rock of Ages Home for Retired Hackers: --eugene miya NASA Ames Research Center {hplabs,ihnp4,dual,hao,decwrl,allegra}!ames!aurora!eugene emiya@ames-vmsb
jon@nsc.UUCP (Jon Ryshpan) (11/22/85)
In article <1252@ames.UUCP> eugene@ames.UUCP (Eugene Miya) writes: >Recently, NASA has been cracking down on the distribution of information >by computer tape. I would like to offer apologies to those people >who mailed me blank tapes to obtain updates of my multiprocessor/ >distributed processing bibliography. ... > >In the past, we just mailed your tape back to you. Now, I have to get >four signatures and the tape must be inspected by our Technology >Utilization office. ... I believe this is in response to comments >made by the Sec. of the DOD, Mr. Weinberger, about NASA being a big >technology leak to other countries. ... > Let me apologize for putting this reply in an inappropriate newsgroup, but it *is* a followup. It's in the form of a dialogue: Q: Which country is making faster advances in science and technology, the US or the USSR? A: The US. Q: Which country has the larger scientific and engineering community? A: The USSR, by a factor of about two. Q; So which country makes better use of its engineering resources? A: The US. Q: Which country has the stronger censorship, information control, need to know, etc? A: The USSR. Q: Why are we imitating the USSR by gumming up our works with more controls? A: I don't know. These views do not necessarily represent those of my employer - or anyone else for that matter. -- Jonathan Ryshpan {decwrl,hplabs,ihnp4}!nsc!jon nsc!jon@decwrl.ARPA Let justice be done though the heavens fall.