[66705] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What's the best way to wiretap a network?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Perry)
Wed Jan 21 08:25:17 2004
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 13:23:15 +0000
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Roland Perry <nanog@internetpolicyagency.com>
In-Reply-To: <468B1BFA-4BEB-11D8-BCF8-000A95928574@kurtis.pp.se>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
In article <468B1BFA-4BEB-11D8-BCF8-000A95928574@kurtis.pp.se>, Kurt
Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se> writes
>From the initial discussions in Sweden around the new electronic
>communications act, it seems as if the operators are obliged to provide
>tapping free of charge. If this turns out to be the case, I guess it is
>pretty much the same all over Europe as the law is supposed to be based
>on a EU framework.
There's nothing in the new EU Communications Framework (or indeed
elsewhere in EU law) that controls whether or not operators can charge
for wiretaps. It's a country by country thing. Complicated by some
countries that claim to re-imburse, actually being chronically bad at
paying the invoices.
In the UK, for example, the current situation is that running costs are
re-imbursed, and network upgrades to be wire-tap ready can benefit from
a one-off grant (but new networks must be designed to be wire-tap ready
at the operator's expense).
--
Roland Perry
