While I'm also not an attorney, my reading of 18 USC 2703 leads me to believe that records need only to be preserved for 180 days if a governmental entity (i.e. law enforcement agency, regulatory body, prosecutors office, etc) makes a request that such records be preserved. To the best of my knowledge, there's no statue on the books (at least at a federal level) which would mandate that a provider keep any records relating to dynamic IP allocations. -- Regards, Jake Mertel Nobis Technology Group, LLC *Web: *http://www.nobistech.net *Phone: *1-480-212-1710 *Mail:* 6930 East Chauncey Lane, Suite 150, Phoenix, AZ 85054 On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:07 AM, R. Scott Evans <nanog@rsle.net> wrote:
I'm no lawyer but in the U.S., 18 USC 2703 appears to indicate this data must be kept for at least 180 days.
-Scott
On 12/12/13 06:34, Sam Moats wrote:
I'm not sure about the current state of the industry it's been a while since I was responsible for an access network. In the past we would keep radius logs for about 4 months, these would include the username,IP address and yes (to date myself) the caller id of the customer at the time.
Sam Moats
On 2013-12-12 03:49, Ray Wong wrote:
been a while, but seems like lately it's more a question of how long. ISPs can be in position where they need to, but as things have consolidated, seems like they'd really like to forget it as soon as they can. If you've got a specific case in mind, likely best to find a direct contact and get a response about policy, even if it has to be off-record. The big ones (like one I likely shouldn't mention by name unless they do as I don't work for them) definitely do, at least long enough to handle DMCA requests and other legal obligations.
-R>
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>wrote:
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013, Carlos Kamtha wrote:
just a general curiousity question. it's been a long time since ive
worked at an ISP.
back then it was non-expiring DHCP leases and in some cases static IP for all.. (yes it was long ago..)
Any feedback would be greatly appreciated..
Yes, it's very common to keep track of what user account/line had what IP at what time.
-- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@swm.pp.se