Hmm The good ol' US of A require NIST conformance for US high level contracts. I assume that the reason for some of the more insane requriements such as GOSIP is a filter for non US based products?

So it is OK for the US to "BuyUS" but when china restricts trade using the same technique....

Pot Kettle

"We don't know what disclosures will be expected of vendors, or how their trade secrets will be protected during the third party testing procedures," he said."

One imagines one reasonably expects full disclosure should a program be for designed for PRC use, as would surely be expected in a government accredited/licensed/ourchased program and as to "how their trade secrets will be protected during the third party testing procedures" ....well, that is all down to how smart the program is and is never considered or feared of discovery in a Mutually Beneficial System.

On a Big Picture Scale, lowering such barriers would suggest that the East has the West hacked Wwide Open....... and are Ready to Play More Fully with the Virtual Forcefullness of CyberIntelAIgent Knowledge ...... Intellectual Property Cloud Control in the CLOUD Space Environment. And QuITe Perfect for the InterNetional Psyche into Domain in Dominions.

I think now would be a good time for the reality questions ....... Houston, we have a problem? Can Holywood help?

...set a standard for product quality higher than that required by any civilized country! The upstarts! Don't they know what's good for them? EICTA does!

Free trade sounds like a good idea in theory (to the rich) but it's insanely complicated to implement and leads to these type of nasty commerce vs sovereignty issues.

The problem is working out the Access Protocol for mutually supervising chips manufacturing... Though, the number of letmesay IBM-compatible chips producing companies is quite excessive, they all have a little proud thingy known as secrecy in the details of the process.

The more archaic this guarded privacy is, considering the background of spreading IBM, ML and some other-compatible technologies in the [future] of the counter-air and -missile defence in one of the countries of Chinese-Finnish border .

Ergo, errr... even a not too wise guy from Beverley would imagine that producing chips, engines, guidance and surveillance gadgets must be a shared market granting the mutual rights of the knowledge to the parties, as well as for the parts used to assemble electronical goods for home users. Right he is. Jobs, you know (-:

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