The Jeff Pulver Blog: Update on our Appeal of the FCC’s CALEA for VoIP Order has an update on the strange subject of CALEA.
We are trying to fight to uphold the broader principle that Internet applications (be they voice, video, data) should not be subject to onerous, legacy regulation. As I have mentioned before, it strikes me as absurd that the traditionally-regulated telecom services are no longer subject to telecom regulations, while traditional regulations are being imposed upon the emerging Internet-based applications that ride on those unregulated telecom services. We are moving inexorably into bizarre world, where the monopoly services are unregulated and the competitive applications (beyond US jurisdiction) are regulated.