Obama Is Urged to Open High-Tech Exports
The New York Times
When Barack Obama takes office as president, he should immediately change or even scrap many cold-war-era regulations on high-tech exports and on immigration by foreign scientists and engineers, an expert panel said Thursday.
Restricting foreigners’ access to strategically important technology might have been useful decades ago, when the United States was the undisputed world leader across the technological spectrum, the panel said in a report issued by the National Academy of Sciences. But today, it said, the nation is losing scientific and engineering dominance even as militarily useful advances come increasingly from civilian research.
The regulations do little for the nation’s security, the panel said, while significantly hampering economic growth and innovation.
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ITAR is crumbling perhaps but it might not be a good idea to pull out all the stops without understanding the consequences
“technology was eligible for export unless shown to be a danger”
What are the dangers, much more than nuclear ones no doubt.
Information technology is also a danger.
National scale data bases and systems engineering allow for restructure of social and administrative configurations .
These must be assured for democratic process and civil society representation .
Redundancy of ITAR means that alternative oversight mechanism must be considered .
Those could be obtained at policy level through the UN commissions on the peaceful uses of outer space, but will need alternative initiative from US going forward into the international space policy arena going forward.
Otherwise no ITAR but no safety nets either and proliferation can occur at many levels, something that National Academies may want to take into consideration