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Matt Liotta wrote:
Lonnie Nunweiler wrote:
I am not saying that CALEA is not real and I actually agree that is
required, BUT, did the group have to agree with the rushed timing and
especially agree to meet a standard that was not even defined?
Specifically, CALEA does not require use of a standard to be
compliant, which is why none is defined. If you want safe harbor then
yes, you are going to need to use a blessed standard, but again that
is not required. My understanding is that WISPA was attempting to
define their own standard, get it blessed, and then allow the
membership to use it as opposed to the very complicated and expensive
ATSI standard that exists now.
They could have argued for some prior consultation to make sure the
requirements were not a hardship for their membership. They owed that
duty to the members. Instead they mostly tried to beat up anybody who
spoke against any aspect of it, and as you just tried, to say the
speaker uppers were acting like hippies from the 60's and merely
wasting time. I believe in Government and Anarchy would be horrible,
so at some point Government must be prepared to listen to people,
especially an organization that purports to represent a large group of
people. That is WISPA and that was what the group was organized for.
If the membership of WISPA wanted to lobby against CALEA then we had
an opportunity almost two years ago. Simply put, by the time CALEA got
on enough people's radar to matter there was no longer time to lobby
against it. Therefore, the only practical thing to do was to figure
out how to comply.
I don't want to drag this topic up again, BUT ;) Two years ago, did
this apply to ISPs or just VOIP providers? I don't remember anyone on
the lists talking about CALEA being for anything other than VOICE in
various forms, but maybe my memory is selective, wouldn't be the first
and probably won't be the last time.
Personally, I don't think WISPA as an organization should work on a
CALEA standard. Every member WISP had to become CALEA compliant
without WISPA because of the deadline, so WISPA working on a standard
now is simply too late. The spectrum issues we were discussing and
working on with the FCC before CALEA came up seem much more important
now that the CALEA deadline has passed.
I strongly disagree with this. I am currently not operating under safe
harbor, but that doesn't mean that I don't want to do so in the future.
I strongly believe that there should be an open CALEA standard that
anyone can meet without having to pay someone a royalty for it.
Sam Tetherow
Sandhills Wireless
-Matt
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