Not sure I agree with this part of your assessment. There are several ways to do this - the storage costs are a factor for sure but a number of other ways to do the other parts within the network today for just about every service provider that are simple (and exist today). But In my view it's still quite open to interpretation what information is required to be stored so it could get worse or better - but my current interpretation suggests, outside of storage costs which are hugely variable, I don't see a lot of additional extra cost and the government will expect us to swallow this or pass it on (see incoming EU DPL regulations for example of this).
Morals/ethical/desirability issues aside I don't see this as the strongest (or even an) argument to deter the government on this. Regards, Neil. (And no; I'm personally not in favour of what the government wants). Sent from my iPhone > On 16 Nov 2015, at 22:51, William Waites <[email protected]> wrote: > > > (2) Depending on the specific retention requirements, it is likely to > require DPI. It's expensive. Also, as a service provider, it's > none of my business what's in my customer's packets. They pay me > to send them where they're supposed to go. Looking at them more > than is required to debug network problems is unethical. I don't > have any DPI kit, and I don't want any. I can mirror a port and > run tcpdump if I need to. >
