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Aucbvax.5822 fa.digest-p utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!digest-people Sat Jan 16 23:55:01 1982 [Paul A. Karger: restricted distribution of mailing lists/digests/etc] >From tcp-ip@brl Sat Jan 16 21:46:57 1982 Does anybody know anything about the Ellsberg case mentioned below? How do we fit all this together? We can NOT make the digests (or anything else transmitted by the ArpaNet) FOUO (For Official Use Only), so we need something else. -Mike

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Date: 16 Jan 1982 1939-EST From: Paul A. Karger <KARGER AT DEC-MARLBORO> To: tcp-request at MIT-AI cc: karger at DEC-MARLBORO, ala at MIT-AI Subject: restricted distribution of mailing lists/digests/etc Message-ID: <"MS5(2045)+GLXLIB1(1056)" 11792817153.19.536.5774 AT DEC-MARLBORO> Via: Mit-Ai; 16 Jan 82 19:48-EDT

While putting a restricted distribution statement on a digest may be a psychological limitation on distribution, there a couple of problems. First, since ARPA and DCA are part of the DoD, there are specific regulations on what may or may not be marked as FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY. The regulations are in part designed to not let people invent other kinds of markings. This dates back to the Ellsberg case and the desire to limit the ability of govt people to conceal information from the "public" (whoever that is)

What happens if someone submits a Freedom of information Act request for Volume 2, Issue 6 of TCP-IP Digest? Worse still, what if someone submits a FOIA request for SFL??

My familliarity with the applicable regs is a little stale, because I left the Air Force over 2 years ago, but I would be very careful about developing new ways to restrict distribution of government information.

Paul Karger --------

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