Re: voip calea interfaces

[Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>]

On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:44 AM, Eric A. Hall wrote:

> This is interesting approach. For one, it seems to cover a lot more
> technology than CALEA requires. I suppose that is an artifact of  
> trying to
> serve multiple countries' requiresments in a single architecture.

Actually, no.

IANAL

US laws include Title III of the 1968 OCCSS, 1978 FISA, and the 1994  
CALEA, with updates related to PATRIOT. The US is unusual in this  
respect; most of the countries that have published law or regulation  
relating to lawful intercept simply state that the police have  
authority to intercept any communications a surveillance subject  
participates in. As such Cisco implemented the PacketCable solution  
for CALEA a while, and then went on to meet the requirements of our  
various customers that have IP data intercept requirements.

You might find the following of interest.It's more about e-911, but  
if you want to read forensic access in as well, the shoe fits.

http://blogs.cisco.com/networkers/2006/06/ 
deploying_emergency_services_e.html

It's my opinion. Cisco is welcome to espouse it as well if it wants to.