Well hopefully, and being from Edinburgh it's a shame to say this, hopefully- they will follow Glasgow and Aberdeen's lead!
It's a while since I read some of the legislation but I don't think any network is exempt from the law! but as Zoe pointed out in many cases it's unclear what is expected and in other cases organisations do things voluntarily. Regards, Neil > On 11 Dec 2014, at 18:26, William Waites <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:32:01 +0000, "Neil J. McRae" <[email protected]> said: > >> How are you engaged in this project? Are they not going to >> tender it? > > I should have been clearer about this. I'm not directly involved in > any way. I'm not bidding, and I don't work for the council. My only > vested interest is as someone who lives here and is paying attention. > > This already went through one iteration, the contract -- which was > problematic in various ways -- was awarded to something called Gowex > which promptly went bankrupt, so they are re-starting the process. I > was asked by somebody who is involved what I thought about data > retention and I realised that I don't know quite how it works -- all > the networks that I have worked on in this country are exempt for one > reason or another. So I thought to ask the list. > > So they will probably re-tender and what I would like to see happen is > a nice, enlightened network that is symmetric, does IPv6, doesn't > harass you by interfering with your traffic, doesn't spy on you and > sell you to advertisers. The main reason they wouldn't ask for that in > their ITT is because they would be worried about risk from things like > the DRIP. So how to assuage those fears with operational experience? > > -w
