[AusNOG] Effect of Data Retention regime on smaller ISPs

[Ross Wheeler]

> 3. Every time a connection is made to your servers you need to log the IP
> address and timestamp and be able to search by that.
>
> I don't think this is true. I doubt they'll want every NTP or DNS lookup
> logged. Hopefully it will depend what the Metadata Expert Group recommends.
> The government would be foolish to push the bill through without their
> endorsement.

Nit-picking in the extreme, but it's relevant...

NTP and DNS requests in the main are UDP and as such don't *CONNECT* to 
our servers. They send a packet, and they "expect" a reply, but it 
technically isn't a CONNECT (like your typical TCP "connection" to SMTP or 
HTTP servers).

Loophole? Intended get-out clause? I don't know.

R.