[asterisk-users] CALEA support within asterisk?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

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
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