Hello Howard!
- For the same reasons, ITAR prevents us from making
a presentation at any AMSAT Symposium with any technical content except perhaps the most general.
I am definitely no lawyer, but I thought that there was specific exemption in the definition of "public domain" in 22 CFR 120.11(6):
"Through unlimited distribution at a conference, meeting, seminar, trade show or exhibition, generally accessible to the public in the United States"
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/cfr_2002/aprqtr/22cfr120.11.htm
Neither am I. My understanding is that if the purpose of the public disclosure is to circumvent ITAR (e.g., like selling your business for $1 before a divorce to prevent your spouse from getting it) then you are still in deep doo-doo (whatever the lawyerese for deep doo-doo is).
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I did not mean to stir up a hornet's nest. I am no expert on this. I was just giving my distorted perspective and explaining why I am no longer active and not writing a paper for the Symposium.
73,
Lyle KK7P