Waiting for the shoe to drop
I'm waiting for the FCC's NPRM on CALEA for VoIP to drop. I am in acronym heaven.
Ed Felten has a nice description of John Morris's presentation at the PFIR conference here. It's likely that FCC is going to try to thread the needle and describe some CALEA regime for VoIP that attempts to ensure that the regime doesn't apply to IM and email. But, still, it's a big step for the FCC to reach the services that are somewhere in between ATT (little bit of IP added in) and Pulver.com (all IP) with CALEA.
And The New York Times is certainly noticing. Today's story is worth reading. CALEA is only part of the story. The rest — the implementation of the “social policies” that I've been pointing to — is equally fascinating.
Have you downloaded Skype yet?