Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of

Partially Closed Meeting

The information Systems Technical Advisory Committee (ISTAC) will

meet on February 3 & 4, 2000, 9 a.m., at the SPAWAR Systems Center,

Rosecrans Street (Point Loma area), San Diego, California. Committee

members and visitors are asked to cheek in at Visitor Reception before

the meeting. Both the public session and the closed session will be

held in Building 111, Room 266. The Committee advises the Office of the

Assistant Secretary for Export Administration on technical questions

that affect the level of export controls applicable to information

systems equipment and technology.

February 3

Public Session

1. Comments or presentations by the public.

2. An industry proposal on changes to Category 5--

telecommunications.

3. Overview of encryption regulations: an industry perspective.

4. Industry presentation on low-power microprocessors.

5. An industry proposal on changes to semiconductor manufacturing

equipment controls.

6. Discussion on alternatives to Composite Theoretical Performance

(CTP) for measuring computer performance.

February 3 & 4

Closed Session

7. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order

12958, dealing with U.S. export control programs and strategic criteria

related thereto.

A limited number of seats will be available for the public session.

Reservations are not required. To the extent time permits, members of

the public may present oral statements to the Committee. The public may

submit written statements at any time before or after the meeting.

However, to facilitate distribution of public presentation materials to

Committee members, the Committee suggests that public presentation

materials or comments be forwarded before the meeting to the address

listed below:

Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, Advisory Committees MS: 3876, U.S.

Department of Commerce, 15th St. & Pennsylvania Ave., N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230

The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on September

10, 1999, pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee

Act, as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of

these Committees and of any Subcommittees thereof, dealing with the

classified materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552(c)(1) shall be exempt from

the provisions relating to public meetings found in section 10(a)(1)

and (a)(3), of the Federal

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Advisory Committee Act. The remaining series of meetings or portions

thereof will be open to the public.

A copy of the Notice of Determination to close meetings or portions

of meetings of these Committees is available for public inspection and

copying in the Central Reference and Records Inspection Facility, Room

6020, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. For further

information or copies of the minutes call Lee Ann Carpenter, 202-482-

2583.

Dated: January 11, 2000.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

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