[148238] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Fri Jan 6 09:00:53 2012
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuovB5E_+bz2aG4t6_UoauDEiJUBoipUD+1to+gTBDH9MtQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 08:59:50 -0500
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 5, 2012, at 11:05 37PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> There's no shortage of stuff that reaches you 80..90 days after the =
fact
>=20
> The UK voluntary retention rules make a lot more sense, compared to "a
> few days", which is entirely impractical
>=20
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
>>=20
>> You need to track down a miscreant user *right now*? You got the last =
48 hours
>> of logs right at hand. It's been a week? Meh, if somebody's been =
getting hit by
>> a DDoS for a week and is just now calling you, the fact they have a =
DDoS is the
>> least of their problems. Toss the logs. :)
The answer from the EFF is the same: retain what *you* have an
operational or administrative need for. This is very different from a
legislative mandate for multiyear retention.
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb