The FCC has approved the CALEA rules, including many (but not all) of the "punchlist" items requested by the FBI. See http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/News_Releases/1999/nret9003.html and http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Wireless/News_Releases/1999/nrwl9038.html for more details. --Steve Bellovin
