President Obama on Thursday rolled back a proliferating array of policies by which federal agencies had kept unclassified information from the public, issuing an executive order intended to create a uniform way of handling such information. Mr. Obama’s order requires agencies to use only one term — “Controlled Unclassified Information,” or CUI — when stamping certain documents that officials believe should be safeguarded but that are not delicate enough to warrant being classified. That label would replace almost 120 markings that various agencies had developed to protect information.
---from this article from the NY Times
Wow, you'd think that they would learn this years ago. But then, ICS is still not fully incorporated--there is still ego amongst the ranks.
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