[AusNOG] Warrant-less Info Requests / Cost Recovery

[Paul Brooks]

They'll tell you you're dreaming.

counter-view...

Remembering that Telstra recently announced they'll charge $25 to process a simple
request - the same amount they charge a LEO.

If you've built even a dodgy lookup system, should it really take more than 60 seconds
to type in an IP address, a start date/time, an end date/time, and have the lookup
system (that the Gov will help contribute to your reasonable costs to build *cough*)
decrypt the RADIUS database for the time window, and extract a dump of records for
that IP address?

If you think you'll be able to charge $500 - $1000, you'd better be prepared to
explain to the CAC why you have to have a live person ruffling through a set of
filing-cabinet of printed-out A4 sheets of paper with your records printed on them.
They might be the Gov't, but even they know we have computers do do this sort of
database lookup these days.


On 18/03/2015 1:27 PM, Andrew Yager wrote:
> Hi Terry,
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> We are taking the view that this is an exercise that is equivalent of up to 2 hours
> technical services, and given the costs of verifying and ensuring compliance, our
> standard cost for a request will be $500 per request.
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> For greater time periods (e.g. reporting on two years), our charging rate will
> extend to $15 000 for this service.
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> More complicated requests (such as access logs from a web server) will also attract
> higher rates.
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> I’d encourage everyone to ensure that their costs are reasonable relating to the
> amount of work - and the opportunity cost associated with complying with this daft
> legislation.
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> Andrew
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>> On 18 Mar 2015, at 1:11 pm, Terry Sweetser <terry+AusNOG at skymesh.net.au
>> <mailto:terry+AusNOG at skymesh.net.au>> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Noggers,
>>
>> I'm wondering what policies and pricing any/all of your organisations have in place
>> to "recover" costs when asked for (meta-)data about ip addresses, customers and so on?
>>
>> Given the transition for 2-year retention and the expansion of the (meta-)dataset
>> to be retained, what plans are in place to charge reasonable fees to state and
>> federal LEOs for the data?
>>
>> Is $200 a fair sum of money for an ip address match up?
>>
>> Is $20,000 a fair sum of money for a dump of the (up to) 2 years of data for an ip
>> address or customer?
>>
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