Thank You , Forrest. Concise and to the point. Ron Wallace Hahnron, Inc. 220 S. Jackson Dt. Addison, MI 49220
Phone: (517)547-8410 Mobile: (517)270-2410 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Forrest W Christian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2008 02:52 AM To: 'WISPA General List' Subject: Re: [WISPA] Topic change - Trade Association Was: Report: FCCtoPunishComcast Over Web Blocking [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in relation to a previous statement about CALEA being good for WISPA: > I can find NO benefit to it of ANY > kind. Nor has anyone I know of explained a single "benefit", ever. It is > a mandate on how a network must function, a limitation to equipment, > software, topology, and redundancy, and an absurd notion in the first place. > It is a direct requirement to dumb-down and overbuild bandwidth, with NO > return of ANY kind, financial or otherwise. From my perspective, almost everyone in the WISP industry got broadsided by the whole CALEA thing... But by the time everyone was aware of the requirements, it was too late to do anything meaningful as far as the rules themselves. What WISPA did was diffuse a potentially very bad and very expensive situation for WISP's. In short, the standards which WISPA developed and got approved basically says that you have to be able to packet sniff the data and provide it to the LEA. One actual statement in the APPROVED standard says: "In unusual cases it may be impossible to perform one or more of these functions. The WISP is expected to make a best effort attempt to satisfy these requirements." It doesn't say you have to redesign your network. It doesn't say you have to dumb down a network. It doesn't say you have to overbuild bandwidth. Go ahead read the standard.. and realize that the ability to comply with this very easy to comply with standard is your safe harbor.... all thanks to the hard work provided by WISPA. You can choose how much you want to do to prepare. True, you may have to go put a packet sniffer at an AP site in response to a intercept request, but I suspect that would have been the case before CALEA as well. -forrest -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [EMAIL PROTECTED] pa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
