Sean, the capacity requirements aren't as straightforward as you are interpreting them. If you are a CLEC and you cover a full five state area in the Northeast, you probably are subject to a county aggregate of a capacity requirement of 1500. You would then look at your historicals, refer to the Federal Register for the actual maximum, and adjust your capacity as required to meet your own historicals and averages -- that also should take into consideration other RBOCs/CLECs operating in the same five state region as the orders will more than likely be broken out by access line % per carrier unless a single carrier dominates in a traditionally active area. In New York City and Los Angeles, the two most active areas, there was a mean average of .035 active electronic/oral intercepts per day. It's complicated, but noone is subject to a straight 1200+ capacity required. There were 1,442 NON FISA oral and electronic intercepts in the entire United States last year.[2] I have the Federal Register Notice if you want a copy. Let me know. [1] Federal Register Volume 63, No. 48 - March 12, 1998 NOTICE 12231 [2] 30 APR 2004 Press Release, Admin office of US Courts -M -- Martin Hannigan (c) 617-388-2663 VeriSign, Inc. (w) 703-948-7018 Network Engineer IV Operations & Infrastructure hannigan@verisign.com
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 4:24 PM To: Steven M. Bellovin Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
There's a lot more to it than that -- there's also access without involving telco personnel, and possibly the ability to do many more wiretaps (have you looked at the capacity requirements lately), but funding is certainly a large part of it. From Section (e) of http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/2518.html :
Any provider of wire or electronic communication service, landlord, custodian or other person furnishing such facilities or technical assistance shall be compensated therefor by the applicant for reasonable expenses incurred in providing such facilities or assistance.
That is not part of CALEA.
Carriers found to be covered by CALEA must provide certain capabilities to law enforcement. For telecommunication equipment, facilities or services deployed after January 1 1995 the carrier must pay all reasonable costs to provide the capabilities.
The capacity requirements are interesting. In some cases, the carrier is required to have more law enforcement tapping capacity than customer capacity. The government sets the capacit requirements without any regard for the cost of maintaining the capacity. If there are multiple competitive carriers in the same area, all of the carriers must have the same capacity. If you have a single customer in Los Angeles, you must provide the capacity for at least 1,360 simultaneous interceptions. How many SPAN ports do you have?
As I mentioned, the wiretap acts and CALEA are really independent.