[AusNOG] Please try to avoid making data retention worse

[Mark ZZZ Smith]

      From: Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org>
 To: "<ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net> 
 Sent: Tuesday, 16 June 2015, 13:21
 Subject: [AusNOG] Please try to avoid making data retention worse
   

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The alternative that some of you seem to be trying is to maximize what you’re putting
into your implementation plans.  AGD is never going to tell you you’re collecting too 
much data; they’re never going to reject a plan on the basis that it’s in excess of 
the law’s requirements. “Oh, you’re going to collect everything? Like, _REALLY_ everything?
Sure, right, let’s just file that one away in writing so it’s legally enforceable, and
we’re good to go.” 

/ There is also a perverse incentive for the AGD not to tell you to collect less data. If you go and bankrupt yourself because you spend to much money on infrastructure to collect too much data, you've just made the AGD's job a little bit easier, because they've now just got one less carrier to deal with.  


The Government made a bunch of claims and assertions about how the impact on the ISP
industry would be minimal because the required data was minimal and low impact. Make 
them mean it: Submit minimal plans, and, if AGD tells you that you need more, make them
prove it by reference to legislation.

You owe your businesses, shareholders, and customers at least that much: Don’t go out
of your way to make a bad situation worse.



  - mark


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