do ISPs keep track of end-user IP changes within thier network?

Thu Dec 12 16:14:01 UTC 2013

While I'm also not an attorney, my reading of 18 USC 2703 leads me to
believe that records need only to be preserved for 180 days if a
governmental entity (i.e. law enforcement agency, regulatory body,
prosecutors office, etc) makes a request that such records be preserved. To
the best of my knowledge, there's no statue on the books (at least at a
federal level) which would mandate that a provider keep any records
relating to dynamic IP allocations.

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On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:07 AM, R. Scott Evans <nanog at rsle.net> wrote:

> I'm no lawyer but in the U.S., 18 USC 2703 appears to indicate this data
> must be kept for at least 180 days.
>
> -Scott
>
>
> On 12/12/13 06:34, Sam Moats wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure about the current state of the industry it's been a while
>> since I was responsible for an access network. In the past we would keep
>> radius logs for about 4 months, these would include the username,IP
>> address and yes (to date myself) the caller id of the customer at the
>> time.
>>
>> Sam Moats
>>
>> On 2013-12-12 03:49, Ray Wong wrote:
>>
>>> been a while, but seems like lately it's more a question of how long.
>>> ISPs
>>> can be in position where they need to, but as things have consolidated,
>>> seems like they'd really like to forget it as soon as they can. If you've
>>> got a specific case in mind, likely best to find a direct contact and
>>> get a
>>> response about policy, even if it has to be off-record. The big ones
>>> (like
>>> one I likely shouldn't mention by name unless they do as I don't work for
>>> them) definitely do, at least long enough to handle DMCA requests and
>>> other
>>> legal obligations.
>>>
>>> -R>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson
>>> <swmike at swm.pp.se>wrote:
>>>
>>>  On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Carlos Kamtha wrote:
>>>>
>>>>  just a general curiousity question. it's been a long time since ive
>>>>
>>>>> worked at an ISP.
>>>>>
>>>>> back then it was non-expiring DHCP leases and in some cases static
>>>>> IP for
>>>>> all.. (yes it was long ago..)
>>>>>
>>>>> Any feedback would be greatly appreciated..
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Yes, it's very common to keep track of what user account/line had
>>>> what IP
>>>> at what time.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>
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