[AusNOG] Interesting

[Mark Foster]

Please read all the supporting documentation before judging.

Break/fix does not require approval. Routine changes not affecting architecture don't require approval.

The law is not great but to their credit GCSB have done a good job of consulting with industry and trying to make this reasonable.

-- 
Mark.

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> On 14/05/2014, at 11:32, Mark Andrews <marka at isc.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> In message <CAA05nen+P1zjqo5NpSdX1tBx6fsxrdLfei5JKVXz7QigtJDS2A at mail.gmail.com>
> , Ben Buxton writes:
>>> 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]
>> 
>> BB
> 
> So the next time something breaks, ring the minister and don't fix
> it until you get approval.  Keep doing this.  Add a recorded message
> to you help lines saying "We regret that the service is down.  The
> Government require us to submit all change requests to them and we
> cannot fix the problem until the change request is approved.  If
> you do not like this policy please contact the minister for <portfolio>
> <name of minister>,  his/her office phone number is <office-number>".
> 
> -- 
> Mark Andrews, ISC
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