[AusNOG] Interesting

[Ben Buxton]

On 14 May 2014 05:22, Lindsay Hill <lindsay.k.hill at gmail.com> wrote:

> "Well at the very least if there was even a remote chance of a Amazon /
> Azure / GoogleCompute region opening up in NZ they just blew that chance
> clear of the water."
>
> Why, given that this law is more targeting ISPs (i.e. not cloud
> providers), and those firms comply with similar interception/tapping
> regimes in other countries they operate in?
>

I read through it, this regulation is nuts. It may not be long before they
decide that compute providers
also fall into this category.

Most LI requirements only specify the capability, and how you provide that
capability is up to the SP (granted, many have rolled out identical
implementations). This goes way beyond and actually requires you to get
governmental approval on most aspects of your network implementation.

- Want to deploy a new linecard? Need government approval for that.

- Want to move your TAC/Radius servers? Ask the government first.

- Selling a new product or plan? Not til the government ok's it.

- Want to roll out a new vendor? Need government approval.

- NOC want to roll out a new tool they wrote to improve monitoring? Need to
submit for government approval first.

- Netflow collector changes? Hell no, ask government first.

- Don't dare "apt-get install" anything on your NOC workstations without
first applying to the government.

If you're a global provider with NZ presence, this seems to affect your ops
teams in europe/usa/aus/etc.

This probably doesn't matter for most incumbent local telco's as they're
used to loads of red tape, but
a good agile provider can go from inception to deployment of many of these
aspects within a week - this
requires significant documentation and a 20 day turnaround.

[* Personal opinion, nothing to do with my employer]

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