Re: IP: IETF considers building wiretapping into the Internet

[Ted Lemon]

Another point to consider is that if the CALEA standards are arrived
at in an open and public manner, it could be made easy to tell whether
or not a given device is implementing them, and one could then use the
CALEA status of a device as part of the purchasing decision.

If the CALEA protocol is closed, it may be more difficult to tell
whether or not a device implements it.  Also, since CALEA is U.S., and
IETF is international, presumably any standard the IETF comes up with
would have to have the CALEA portion as an option, not a requirement,
and would have to specify how devices that do not implement CALEA
would operate.

Remember how loudly we howled about the secret nature of the guts of
the Clipper chip?  We are now being hoisted by our own petard... :'/

                               _MelloN_