Regarding CALEA: First, it's important to note that the revision currently under discussion has not been finalized, and so any statements about what will or will not be required are speculative. Note also that, regardless of what the FCC ends up ordering, a number of organizations (not least of all, EDUCAUSE) have initiated legal action challenging the FCC's authority to extend CALEA as proposed.
With that said, there is nothing in any of the published proposals from the FCC that would require campuses (or anyone else, for that matter) to acquire or retain any data (including authentication or identification data) they are not already gathering. Traditionally and on its face, CALEA deals only with the technical means by which data is made available to law enforcement, not what data is collected. Which is not to say you will never receive a court order requiring you to gather or save something new, just that, so far, such an order would have nothing to do with CALEA. I've shared the stage a couple of times recently with Ed Thomas, former Chief of the FCC's Office of Engineering and Technology. In that position, Ed had responsibility for CALEA compliance, and one of the few things we agreed upon was that campuses should make decisions about authentication on the basis of their own needs and policies, not on the basis of CALEA. There's a discussion currently underway on the CIO list about campus policies on anonymous access. Searchable archives are at <http://listserv.educause.edu/archives/cio.html>. But one more time: The CALEA revision remains a work in progress and, to quote Ed Thomas, there are no facts about the future. For more information, see our resource page (http://www.educause.edu/calea) and/or sign on to the CALEA discussion list (http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A0=CALEA-HE). Steve -- Steven L. Worona Director of Policy and Networking Programs EDUCAUSE / 1150 18th St. NW suite 1010 / Washington, DC 20036 202-872-4200 x 5358 / 202-872-4318 fax / [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- At 10:00 AM -0500 3/31/06, Barros, Jacob wrote: >Nothing specific about the act itself. If my understanding is correct, >CALEA will just require you to have the ability to completely track >anyone the government specifies. In my understanding of how anonymous >users are handled by many campuses, just http ssl and dns are allowed. >I just assume that many of our off campus students won't care if they >are never more than a guest user. So how can you track John Doe if he >is an anonymous user? Maybe the question is more, how do you handle (in >light of CALEA) a student that chooses to never register or use his >(her) username and password and is happy with 'guest access'? > > >-----Original Message----- >From: King, Michael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:16 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest access - CALEA rabbit trail > > Jake, > >We too have begun to consider anonymous guest access. > >Where in CALEA are you to referring to? (A hyperlink would help) I'd >like to approach this new initiative aware of all the facts, and this is >one I hadn't considered before. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Barros, Jacob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 9:00 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Guest access - CALEA rabbit trail >> >> We've been forcing all users to authenticate and were considering >> anonymous guest access as well, but in light of CALEA enforcement >> probability we are hesitant. For those of you that do allow anonymous > >> guests, are you considering changing that policy in light of CALEA? >> Have you any other legal 'problems' with anonymous access? >> >> Jake Barros >> Grace College >> > >********** >Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent >Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > >********** >Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group >discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
