Hi,

I was chatting to someone the other day about the future of community
wireless networks in Australia, and some of the regulatory issues.

They mentioned that since the US September 11th incident, apparently now
there are more stringent requirements from the ACA in regards to
carriers making remote monitoring and logging abilities available to
federal law enforcement, as required in the Telecommunications Act.

Apparently any network providing carriage services will fall under this
rule.

With this in mind, since a community wireless network is effectively
providing carriage services to its members, despite being non-commercial
and the members being in the immediate circle, we will likely fall under
this ruling, or be forced under it at a later stage.

Are we willing to take on the responsibility of providing the ability
for the network to be monitored, and to have an individual cleared and
registered with the ACA as a sole person to manage and provide access to
that monitoring ability, in the same way that a carrier has to?

Food for thought.

Regards

Jamie

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