[1327] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Questions: ANS Plan for Commercial Services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow)
Thu Sep 12 11:36:35 1991
To: proll@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (Peter Roll)
Cc: com-priv@psi.com, staman@cic.net, hankins@cic.net,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 12 Sep 91 08:18:55 -0500.
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 91 08:37:03 MST
From: the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow <geoff@fernwood.mpk.ca.us>
>Why is it of interest to gather application type identification
>information (page A-4)? This seems to be unwarranted and unnecessary.
I wonder what the legal ramifications of gathering this level of
information vis-a-vis Electronic Communications Privacy Act are? Gathering
application type identification information would seem to be a possibly
"grey" area situated between straight COMINT (communications intelligence -
who's talking to whom with nothing to do with message content) and SIGINT
(signals intelligence - who's talking to whom and message content).
Anyone else have any thoughts on this ?
Geoff
