[83213] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: FCC Issues Rule Allowing FBI to Dictate Wiretap-Friendly Design for In ternet Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Sun Aug 7 15:24:40 2005
Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2005 15:24:13 -0400
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "Tony Li" <tony.li@tony.li>,
"Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> > That is IF you even get an order. The brunt of the work is
> > at the tier1's. This is like DDOS. LEC's have to do it, but
> > they frequently misinterpret the requirements and scale and
> > end up spending money they never had to. Misinterpretation is
> > a big problem for CALEA, technically speaking.
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> First time anyone has every accused tier 1's of spending=20
> money they didn't
> need too.
Let me lower the reading comprehension level for you. I said that
tier1's bear the brunt of the orders, and insinuated that tier2's
get less orders. They do. Many midwest/rural CLEC's get NO
orders. They must still be compliant.
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> Folks may find it useful to review
[ SNIP ]
The place to get the authoritative word is direct from the
AskCALEA folks here: http://www.askcalea.net/ - and of course
you can discuss with your telecom lawyers.=20
You may be confusing terminology though, which is understandable.=20
I can't find a government official calling defining the applicability=20
of the law a "wish list" so I'll leave that to the gentle readers to=20
determine.=20
-M<
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