National Research Council

Subject: National Research Council


>  Kenneth Dam, committee chair, was Deputy Secretary of State (1982-
>  1985) and is currently the Max Pam Professor of American and Foreign
>  Law at the University of Chicago Law School.

>  General W. Y. Smith, retired, committee vice-chair, is president
>  emeritus of the Institute for Defense Analyses, and has also served in a
>  number of military posts including that of deputy commander in chief of
>  the U.S. European Command in Germany.

>  Lee Bollinger, formerly dean of the University of Michigan Law School,
>  is currently provost of Dartmouth College and a constitutional scholar.


>  Ann Caracristi, retired, was Deputy Director of the National Security
>  Agency (1980-1982).

>  Benjamin Civiletti was U.S. Attorney General (1979-1981), and is
>  currently in private practice with the law firm Venable, Baetjer, Howard
>  and Civiletti.

>  Colin Crook is senior technology officer for Citicorp.

>  Samuel Fuller is vice president of corporate research at Digital
>  Equipment Corporation.

>  Leslie Gelb is president of the Council on Foreign Relations.  He served
>  as Assistant Secretary of State for Politico-Military Affairs
>  (1977-1980).

>  Ronald Graham is a director of information sciences at AT&T Bell Labs
>  and a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University.

>  Martin Hellman is professor of electrical engineering at Stanford
>  University.  Dr. Hellman was one of the inventors of public key
>  encryption.

>  Julius Katz is president of Hills & Company, and was deputy United
>  States trade representative (1989-1993).

>  Peter Neumann is principal scientist in the Computer Science Laboratory
>  at SRI International.  He is the chairman of the ACM committee on
>  computers and public policy, and a member of the ACM study group on
>  cryptography policy.

>  Raymond Ozzie is president of Iris Associates, a wholly-owned
>  subsidiary of the Lotus Development Corporation.  Iris Associates is the
>  developer of Lotus Notes.

>  Kumar Patel is vice chancellor for research at UCLA.

>  Edward Schmults was Deputy Attorney General of the United States
>  (1981-1984) and is a former senior vice president for external relations
>  and general counsel for the GTE Corporation.

>  Elliot Stone is executive director of the Massachusetts Health Data
>  Consortium, which is responsible for the collection and analysis of the
>  state's large health care databases.

>  Willis Ware, retired, is with the RAND Corporation as senior computer
>  scientist emeritus.  He chairs the Computer System Security and Privacy
>  Advisory Board which was established by the Computer Security Act of
>  1987.



Is it me or are there a disproportionate amount of legal/government/military/
types on this list?  Keeping this in mind, do you really think any of our
comments will go anywhere but in the old circular file?

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> Is it me or are there a disproportionate amount of legal/government/military/
> types on this list?  Keeping this in mind, do you really think any of our
> comments will go anywhere but in the old circular file?

Disagree.  Looks balanced or perhaps even weighted toward good guys to me.
I haven't met many of them, but certainly Marty Hellman, Peter Neumann,
and Willis Ware are on the Good Guys side.  Willis (a colleague here at
RAND) is carefully neutral on the political stuff, but is strongly
pro-privacy.  I assume Sam Fuller is the guy who was on my thesis
committee back at C-MU 20 years ago, and he was sensible and non-political
then.  Another half dozen of them appear from credentials to be business
and academic.  Very few appear to be obvious government types.

	Jim Gillogly
	2 Winterfilth S.R. 1994, 18:44

>Is it me or are there a disproportionate amount of legal/government/military/
>types on this list?  Keeping this in mind, do you really think any of our
>comments will go anywhere but in the old circular file?

My thoughts exactly. The committee's classification/clearance policy
was undoubtedly intended to skew its membership much more than to
protect any legitimate government secret. After all, they're supposed
to be discussing openly available civilian encryption technologies.

Funny how the most obvious, no-brainer public policy questions always
seem to generate the most controversy...

Phil