[83187] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sjk)
Sat Aug 6 22:14:21 2005
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 21:13:54 -0500 (CDT)
From: sjk <sjk@dredel.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <17141.25631.221265.532700@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Randy Bush wrote:
>
>>> It also hobbles technical innovation by forcing companies involved in
>>> broadband to redesign their products to meet government requirements.
>>
>> As opposed to hobbling innovation by meeting customer requirements?
>
> who's paying the bill? and sorry to hear from a vendor that meeting
> the customers' requirements is such a negative thing.
>
> randy
>
We all pay the bill with higher equipment costs, the maintenance of
configurations, and possible storage costs. CALEA was bound to include
VoIP services - given the definition telecom carrier in the act; however,
as I recall -- and I may be wrong -- when CALEA was first passed the
carriers were given tax breaks and subsidies to implement changes. Is
such financial help being offered today?
--sjk
