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

[Paul Brooks]

On 10/06/2015 10:16 AM, Noel Butler wrote:
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> On 10/06/2015 10:10, Joseph Goldman wrote:
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>> From reading those pages it seems to indicated source, destination, time and type
>> of the communication. Perfect job for this appears to be netflow data - netflow
>> itself holds a lot more information that may not be necessary but it seems to be
>> the best way to pull that information at a quick glance, no?
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> That is for voice, read it carefully. Yes for voice they want to know from and to,
> but for internet, only who has what IP at what time and their life story including
> payment history and a total, I guess monthly, of that users used quota, a one line
> per month total entry in a DB, which one assumes is in your billing system already
> anyway, they certainly do not want to know how many times you logged onto twitter or
> youtube or if you ever visited watchingthegrassgrow.com
>

What Noel said.

Note also that 'source' and 'destination' addresses or identifies are relative to the
service under consideration. If you are working out your obligations for a VoIP
service, then source and destination are telephone numbers or SIP addresses. Just as
would appear in your SIP logs.
If you are thinking about email, then source and destinatation are email addresses.
Now, if you also know IP address (which you might do for an email source address,
coming from one of your own users) then you include that. For destination email its
highly unlikely you'll have any idea what the destination's IP address will be,
especially after its been relayed a few times - so you don't need to include it if you
don't know it.

For basic Internet Access service, then its essentially whats in RADIUS logs.
Date/time the connection came up, when it dropped, the IP addresses you allocated to
it (static or dynamic), and account information for the account holder. Maybe traffic
volume bytecount for the session.


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