ISP CALEA compliance
Jack Bates
jbates at brightok.net
Thu May 10 20:21:38 UTC 2007
Jason Frisvold wrote:
> Here's a question that's come up around here. Does a CALEA intercept
> include "hairpining" or is it *only* traffic leaving your network?
> I'm of the opinion that a CALEA intercept request includes every bit
> of traffic being sent or received by the targeted individual, but
> there is strong opposition here that thinks only internet-related
> traffic counts.
>
IANAL... The law does include "hairpining", however, the conference we went to
last week on CALEA gave us a lot of insight. The LEAs we talked to were
interested in us working with them. They understand that the mandate requires
some things that are technically infeasible or so cost prohibitive as to mandate
abandoning broadband all together. For example, how do you tap a "customer" that
is in a cyber cafe? How do you handle "hairpining" on a wireless bridge? There
is entire DSLAM infrastructure out there that has no filtering capabilities and
the closest one could tap is leaving the DSLAM, but not traffic between
customers on the same DSLAM. In general, they seemed to be happy if we could get
traffic isolated down to a town level, and just do the best we could to assist
in meeting the traffic tap.
Jack Bates
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