Does anyone know if asterisk currently supports the US government's Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) regulations? If not, does anyone have this item on their To-Do list? For those that are not familiar with CALEA, it's the governement's way of intercepting or "monitoring" voice communications (presumably with a court order) for law enforcement personnel, etc. The broadband / ITSP compliance due date is May 14, 2007. The CALEA implementation and compliance for pstn central offices is complete (with some exceptions), and required software development efforts by each of the central office switch vendors. Rich
Rich Adamson wrote:> For those that are not familiar with CALEA, it's the governement's way > of intercepting or "monitoring" voice communications (presumably with > a court order) for law enforcement personnel, etc. The broadband / > ITSP compliance due date is May 14, 2007.For those unfamiliar with CALEA entirely, Asterisk is solely a program running on a machine. It does logging like any other program, so logging is available, the majority of your concern should come from your network where the taps would occur... Anyway the FCC permits some providers to apply for an exemption to CALEA when monitoring is not technically feasible. Anyone with enough networking, engineering experience can draft up information and request exemption. http://www.xchangemag.com/hotnews/5bh171622461175.html Anyhow of newsworthiness and humor (depending on your view) "The FCC is also responsible for the steady expansion of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) and has attempted to mandate <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060613-7042.html> VoIP back-doors despite the fact that doing so contradicts the language and intent of CALEA as well as the agency's own standing policies regarding the classification of Internet services. The FCC is also guilty of frequent attempts to exceed its authority, most notably by attempting to mandate <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20041006-4280.html> the anti-consumer broadcast flag without congressional authorization." http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060917-7758.html Right... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060917-7758.html -- ===================================================J. Oquendo http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x1383A743 sil . infiltrated @ net http://www.infiltrated.net The happiness of society is the end of government. John Adams
On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 12:13:27PM -0500, Rich Adamson wrote:> Does anyone know if asterisk currently supports the US government's > Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA) regulations? > If not, does anyone have this item on their To-Do list?Why in hell *would* anyone? I don't think CALEA ("to", not "for" :-) applies to anything smaller than a CO switch anyway, does it?> court order) for law enforcement personnel, etc. The broadband / ITSP > compliance due date is May 14, 2007.Oh yeah; people are using Asterisk for things bigger than PBXen. Oops.> The CALEA implementation and compliance for pstn central offices is > complete (with some exceptions), and required software development > efforts by each of the central office switch vendors.Good luck with that. I suspect you *can't* implement CALEA support for Asterisk -- doesn't the government require some security by obscurity concerning the implementation? Does that mean that they've made it illegal to use Asterisk? Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com Designer Baylink RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates The Things I Think '87 e24 St Petersburg FL USA http://baylink.pitas.com +1 727 647 1274 "That's women for you; you divorce them, and 10 years later, they stop having sex with you." -- Jennifer Crusie; _Fast_Women_