FCC order on VOIP snooping

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell () joe-job com>
Date: May 6, 2006 11:40:09 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: FCC order on VOIP snooping

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DOC-265221A1.pdf

I have a question for the lawyers on IP (not looking for free legal
advice, just your thoughts ;-).

I just returned from presenting a paper at the 4th Linux Audio
Conference in Karlsruhe, Germany and there's currently a lot of work on
low latency, high quality realtime audio over IP - the point of which is
to allow musicians to collaborate (or "jam") live over the net.  The
upper latency limit between musicians for playing "live" is about
20-30ms so the speed of light prevents this from ever working beyond a
few hundred miles, but it still should be quite useful.

Has there been any discussion of whether this kind of peer to peer audio
system, which is not designed for VOIP but could obviously be used for
that, would be affected?  AFAICT having to implement CALEA would be the
death of any such system, as it's simply a musician's peer to peer tool
not a centralized operation, plus I can't imagine how you would
implement CALEA without killing the latency.

Lee





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