[AusNOG] From the AGD - Data Retention - Starts October 15 2015

[Ross Wheeler]

On Wed, 10 Jun 2015, George Fong wrote:

> BTW if you want contact details of the AGD's Communications Access
> Co-ordinator, they are here at the bottom of this page:
>
> http://www.ag.gov.au/NationalSecurity/DataRetention/Pages/Industry-Implementation-of-data-retention.aspx

Serious question, since you've spokent to them (I presume) and I haven't 
(I've been waiting with baited breath on the "simple, accurate, approved" 
interpretation from CA/et al), but do these clowns from the goobermint 
actually understand themselves, and are they able to convey in honest, 
technical terms we can actually apply, what the hell it is we have to do?

I'm presuming NOT, because if it was that simple, the well educated, 
legally trained, technically competent people of the SIG would have had a 
straightforward, unambiguous document out to us within a few hours.

Therefore, I wonder what possible benefit there is talking to these 
dweebs, if they're just going to regurgitate verbatim the unintelligible 
piffle in the release itself, which attempts to define what we must do by 
defining what they DON'T expect us to do (and even then, doing so in 
self-contradictory terms!)

Or is it just me?