Re: teh IETF's "bad call"

[Mark Handley <mjh@icir.org>]

>> The IETF is an international organization.  It therefore seemed and
>> seems inappropriate to define standards on the basis of local legal
>> requirements.  
>
>that was one of the factors in the raven discussion but I think
>that is 
>	1/ becoming less of a factor because there is getting to be
>	   more consensus

Consensus between whom?  (I'm not saying there isn't more consensus -
I'm just wondering what makes you assert this)

>	2/ might not be quite the right way to look at the problem
>	   for example, if one had a over-the-wire command language
>	   to talk to wiretap devices that defined a range of operations
>	   (and that could be saved in a log for audit purposes) then
>	   the individual jurisdiction could say what operations were 
>	   legit 

It seems to me that different jurisdictions might have very different
legal requirements for authentication and auditing of such a protocol
- if so, then this might be problematic.

Cheers,
	Mark