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At 12:06 AM -0400 6/20/04, Sean Donelan wrote: >On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, John Curran wrote: >> S.2281 takes the middle of the road position in areas such as lawful >> intercept, universal service fund, and E911. At a high-level, those >> VoIP services which offer PSTN interconnection (and thereby look like >> traditional phone service in terms of capabilities) under S.2281 pick up >> the same regulatory requirements. > >It sounds good, if you assume there will always be a PSTN. But its >like defining the Internet in terms of connecting to the ARPANET. Correct. It's a workable interim measure to continue today's practice while the edge network is transitioning to VoIP. It does not address the more colorful long-term situation that law enforcement will be in shortly with abundant, ad-hoc, encrypted p2p communications. >What about Nextel's phone-to-phone talk feature which doesn't touch >the PSTN? What about carriers who offer "Free" on-net calling, which >doesn't connect to the PSTN and off-net calling to customers on the >PSTN or other carriers. > >Will the bad guys follow the law, and only conduct their criminal >activities over services connected to the PSTN? Sean - what alternative position do you propose? /John
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