DHS ieprep-related comments to the FCC

As some of you may know, the US Department of Justice,  Drug Enforcement
Agency and Federal Bureau of Investigation requested expedited rulemaking
from the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC)  asking that the FCC
extend the current US rules on telecommunications legal intercept
(wiretapping) to IP networks and IP-based services.
(A copy of the request is at
http://www.askcalea.net/docs/20040310.calea.jper.pdf.)

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has now provided comments on
this request to the FCC.  The comments include the request that the FCC
mandate that ISPs, VoIP providers, and others be able to mark and
prioritize emergency traffic (or, if they cannot prioritize, not give
worse service and not destroy the marking).

You can find the DHS comments at:
http://gullfoss2.fcc.gov/prod/ecfs/retrieve.cgi?native_or_pdf=pdf&id_document=6516199457

We should discuss how this relates to the mission of this working group.

Scott