[Ground-station] Call for Input - meeting with legal team about ITAR/EAR results

[Bruce Perens]

On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 3:36 PM Samudra Haque [TTLLC]
<sehaque at tekterrain.com> wrote:
> I wonder if  an ITAR compliance checklist (a check off style web form) for contributors could be used when they upload/share content?

"Check before you upload" is based on the idea that you are safe until
you publish the information. The opposite is true. Allowing something
to be secret is what gets you in trouble.

The lawyers can tell you:
1. How we said we would publish information.
2. What we said were the capabilities of satellites in our satellite
program, because certain capabilities are prohibited (for example,
imaging the State of Israel at a greater resolution than available
commercially outside of the United States - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyl%E2%80%93Bingaman_Amendment ).

But mainly this long, expensive process confirmed our understanding of
what you could clearly read in the text of ITAR and EAR, if people
just took the time to read them. A J.D. is not required. And all of
that doubt was from people who never read the text and just wanted to
doubt.

    Thanks

    Bruce