On Fri, 6 May 2016 08:06:48 -0400 Steve Marquess <marquess at openssl.com> wrote: > On 05/06/2016 07:45 AM, Salz, Rich wrote: > >> Consider having the non-U.S. person do the account setup too. > >> > >> Banks are as scared of US jurisdiction as crypto engineers. > > > > Yeah, we've done that. Even to the point where one of the team was > > going to get on a plane to fly to the Isle of Mann. > > > > It's amazingly painful and difficult and so far not productive. > > > > ... > > FATCA means that no "U.S. person" can have any access to the bank > account; we are well and painfully aware of that, and it's not a > problem. Only three of us fall in that category anyway; OpenSSL is > not a U.S. centric organization. Our U.S. connections are only due to > the circumstantial fact that the OpenSSL team member (me) who > initially set up our banking arrangements happened to be American. > Lower left column: https://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Corporations/Foreign-Account-Tax-Compliance-Act-FATCA You just have to love that: ...in addition to FoBAR reporting. ;) = = = = = Seriously, As copyright owners you can rescind license permissions as you wish. Contact this person: https://www.irs.gov/uac/Commissioner-John-Koskinen and give them 30 days to purge any and all use of OpenSSL from the irs.gov network. A specific license withdrawal. You should at least be able to start a useful conversation that way. Mike > -Steve M. >
