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

A meeting of the Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee

will be held February 19 & 20, 1998, Room 1617M-2, in the Herbert C.

Hoover Building, 14th Street between Constitution and Pennsylvania

Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. This Committee advises the Office of

the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration with respect to

technical questions that affect the level of export controls applicable

to information systems equipment and technology.

February 19

General Session 9:00 a.m.

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Solicitation of public comments on Composite Theoretical

Performance as the appropriate performance metric for future chip

designs.

3. Discussion of ECCN 4E001, paragraph for License Exception TSR

(Technology and Software Restricted).

4. Bureau of Export Administration update on encryption licensing

initiatives.

5. Other comments or presentations by the public.

February 19 & 20

Closed Session

6. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order

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

related thereto.

The General Session of the meeting is open to the public and a

limited number of seats will be available. To the extent time permits,

members of the public may present oral statements to the Committee.

Written statements may be submitted at any time before or after the

meeting. However, to facilitate distribution of public presentation

materials to the Committee members, the Committee suggests that public

presentation materials or comments be forwarded at least one week

before the meeting to the address listed below: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter,

OAS/EA MS: 3886C, Bureau of Export Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230.

The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on October 3,

1997, 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 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 30, 1998.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.

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