Frank can speak for himself, but IMO CALEA is a pain in the rear for every
service provider. It is not, and was not, optional. What Wispa did was
give operators (members or not) the ability to comply with the law without
spending fortunes to do it. You don't need a TTP and you don't need a $100K
mediation box. ImageStream and Mikrotik both will support the new standard,
so if you have one of those vendors all you will need is a collection server
(and some expertise from the manufacturer or consultant).
Wispa also was able to get a year grace (from May 2008) for WISPs who cannot
comply because of network design. IIRC, you are in that boat.
In short, you don't have to like CALEA (it's way less onerous and intrusive
than Carnvore), but it is a fact of life. Another fact...whether or not you
ever give a dime to Wispa they have helped you immensely. The CALEA
committee put in countless hours to get this done.
Join or don't, but don't say that there is no value in membership. CALEA is
just one reason.
Jeff
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From: Frank Muto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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You don't get it. CALEA was a good thing for WISPA and its members.
No, of course I don't get it. This has got to be one of the dumbest
thing I have ever heard in my life. I can find NO benefit to it of ANY
kind. Nor has anyone I know of explained a single benefit, ever. It is
a mandate on how a network must function, a limitation to equipment,
software, topology, and redundancy, and an absurd notion in the first place.
It is a direct requirement to dumb-down and overbuild bandwidth, with NO
return of ANY kind, financial or otherwise.
A good thing? Obviously, you're in the camp that expecting to get money
ripped out of someone else's pockets and headed your way. Or, just try to
explain it. Nobody has till now. They make the statement, but the logic
used is an insult to our intelligence.
You need to understand that you pick the battles you feel
you can win. WISPA has gained a good amount of respect from the FCC, but
this is only one of many battle fronts WISP's are up
against.
Gained respect? Please. This is imaginary nonsense. We're forgotten
faster than styrofoam cup in a hurricane. We haven't got the millions to
bribe them with, so there is no amount of positive influence we can have.
The FIGHT for US battle cry you comment on takes money, time and a good
amount off leg work to make things work.
No kidding. I agree entirely. But when people start the comments like
CALEA is good for us, whatever agenda they have in mind is NOT the well
being of WISP's, but some kind of other agenda.
You are
dealing with a bureau that has many different levels of staffing, it can
take weeks to know who to talk to, when and if they
will talk to you, will it be ex-parte or not, etc, etc, etc.
Like any other organization.
Understand that the RBOCs and other companies are clamoring for the eyes
and ears of those a the FCC, as WISPs need to get
to.The fight is not only on the federal level, but also at the state and
local levels as well.
I'm still not sure exactly what your point is here. I understand the need
to talk to all levels of government, but if we're going to take the mindset
that all mandates and rules are Holy and Untouchable, then what is the
point? 95% of what WISPA should be doing should be DEFENSIVE from an
overreaching government agency of some kind. And it seems the present
leadership has absolutely NO interest in defense at all, just playing
looky, I got to talk to the Holy Ones in DC game, some kind of hat in hand
subservence...
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