Hi Jim, Avoiding the politics of this issue, I suspect that many more home users will be affected than corporate or backbone admins. I already log all access to my wireless, though currently I don't keep outgoing access logs for that long. I suspect that if this were to become law, the logging mechanisms in the provided home wireless routers would need a revamp. Or at least their storage method would. -DS
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Jim Willis <jim.h.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: > After having a brief conversation with a friend of mine over the weekend > about this new proposed legislation I was horrified to find that I could > not > dig anything up on it in NANOG. Surely this sort of short minded > legislation > should have been a bit more thought through in its effects on those that > would have to implement these changes. My major concern is not just for > myself but for a much broader picture. > > "Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law > that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of > Wi-Fi > access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep > records about users for two years to aid police investigations." > > http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/20/internet.records.bill/index.html > > > I understand and agree that minors should be protected and I think child > pornography is awful, however I think how the government is going about > catching these criminals with this new legislation will not really be any > more efficient than there current methods. Having a log of all IP's that > come across my or anyone in America's "home" Wi-Fi for two years is not > going to help "police investigations" but will cause me to have to go buy a > more expensive router. > > So I'm just wondering, how would this legislation effect some of you on the > NANOG list? > > -Jim >
