I won't defend all the crazy intrusions by government. But this is not a fee to conduct business. This isn't a tax. This is a mandate to carry out the functions of law enforcement for them, purely for thier convenience. It isn't even a regulation to enforce quality standards on internet services, nor consumer protection from shoddy internet services, nor is it even a protection from badly conducted wireless operations. Theoretically, your contractor's license and so on were "consumer protection" concerning the business you were in. The effectiveness can be debated, and this is not the place for that.
But, CALEA has NOTHING to do with providing internet services nor consumer protection. It is simply transferrence of law enforcement functions to YOU to do at your own expense, by your own people and at YOUR OWN LIABILITY. If you mix up someone's traffic, because someone made a typo, do you REALLY think that you will be protected from the wrath of the legal eagles out to get you? Don't count on it. And it is impossible for small operators to be in complete compliance. And it presents an obstacle to technological innovation and it presents MAJOR obstacles to certtain types of desired network types, such as mesh. There are many other ways for law enforcement to get what it needs. Even better would be a REAL law, written properly, and funded properly by Congress, instead of this absurdity about information services and telecommuncations services. You know, of course, that this hybrid 'standing' is about as shaky as a sand castle on the beach. It wont' be any time before we're fully "telecommuncations services" and the mandates and regulations and controls fly at us like vultures to roadkill or flies to a cowpie. It's a very small thing to support the notion that small ISP's be exempt for obvious reasons. But you won't even do that? Why the bloody hell not? What have you got against them? ----- Original Message ----- From: "George Rogato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 8:17 PM Subject: Re: [WISPA] from WISPA's home page.... > > > Mark Koskenmaki wrote: > > >> Why does wispa want to take an antagonistic stance towards legal high > >> tech wiretapping? > > > > BECAUSE IT IS FREAKING WRONG, GEORGE, for the government to shift the cost > > of law enforcement to specific business entities for its own convenience. > > Why can't you see this? > > > > When I was in the electrical contracting business, I was forced to have > all kinds of fees laid upon me to conduct business. > > This isp business is one of the least regulated with the least intrusive > and least government costs. > > If your moaning and groaning about what will probably turn out to be > very low cost solutions, (an assumption) what are you going to do when > it comes time to hire employees and then fall inline with those > government regulations and costs? > > > -- > George Rogato > > Welcome to WISPA > > www.wispa.org > > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -- > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
