"The Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional
Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies" is an arms control
arrangement with 33 participating states. It was
established after the end of the cold war as the successor to
COCOM[?]. A Secretariat for administrating the agreement is located
in Vienna, Austria -- http://www.wassenaar.org.
The outline of the arrangement is set out in a document entitled
"Initial Elements" -- http://www.bxa.doc.gov/Wassenaar/InitialElements.htm
-- adopted in July 1996 and updated in December 2001.
The 1996 list of technologies can be found at http://jya.com/wa/watoc.htm.
Software is not included as a restricted technology if it is "generally
available to the public" or "in the public domain".
The 33 founding states were: Argentina, Australia,
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Japan,
Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway,
Poland, Republic of Korea, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States.
As of March 2002, it seems that no other states have joined the arrangement
since it was founded.