[Asterisk-Users] FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable

[Jay Milk]

Yikes... I don't think it should be too problematic with PSTN
termination, but if you're making VOIP-to-VOIP calls, you will only act
as a SIP Proxy (or somesuch) and won't even be part of the stream.
Besides, those who would use VOIP for ill, would probably use direct
ip-dialing anyway.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florin Andrei [mailto:florin at andrei.myip.org] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 6:02 PM
> To: asterisk-users at lists.digium.com
> Subject: [Asterisk-Users] FCC Rules VoIP Must Be Tappable
> 
> 
> http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/08/04/2212251&tid=15
> 8&tid=95&tid=103
> 
> Probably some of you already saw this.
> Now, beyond discussions regarding the legitimacy of such a 
> ruling (whether they have the legal, moral or whatever right 
> to enforce it), there's the technical aspect.
> 
> Suppose i provide VoIP services using Asterisk, and i fall 
> under the incidence of the FCC ruling and i have to provide a 
> tap to the guys in the black helicopters. What are the 
> guidelines, what should i do to ensure i won't get spanked 
> because i obstructed the justice or some such. More 
> precisely, what config bits must be put in place to make sure 
> there's always an easy way, with Asterisk, to tap into 
> arbitrary calls?
> 
> -- 
> Florin Andrei