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This issue, which has been simmering on the IEEE and open publishing lists for several months now, has broken out into the mainstream media where it is generating some heat under U.S. policy makers. A ruling from last September now prohibits U.S. citizens from editing work authored by citizens of several blacklisted countries. The concern is that such embargos should not apply to academic work, especially the academic work of an international standards body.

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