ICR "Unique Identifiers"

[Peter Fairbrother]

On 04/11/15 16:55, Marcus Williamson wrote:
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> This statement in the document is false, as far as I can see from a technical
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> "ICRs therefore provide the unique identifier to distinguish between different
> users of a shared IP address"


I think it's got to be true, because they probably define an ICR as 
something which does that  :(

What it technically consists of, or whether it is technically reasonable 
or even possible, I don't think they are actually bovvered at all about. 
It's SEP (the ISPs').



Afaict these statements are not true:

"The draft Bill will require that ICRs are retained by communications 
service providers"

The Draft Bill does nothing of the kind - though it does grant the SoS 
pretty well unlimited powers to require comms data retention, it does 
not in itself actually require any data retention, nor does it mention 
ICRs anywhere.

BTW, these are direct powers; requirements for comms data retention do 
not have to be formulated as regulations, the SoS just orders them.

Nor do they require judicial authorisation - the SoS just orders them 
and voila, there they are.

Parliament has no say in what data is to be retained.




"It could never contain a full web address as under
the law these would be defined as content."

nitpicking, www.google.com/ _is_ a full web address.

Nor would a full web address like www.google.com/gay+porn be defined as 
content  - 193(6)(a) "anything in the context of web browsing which 
identifies the telecommunications service concerned is not content,".

A full web address does that.


-- Peter Fairbrother


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> On Wed, 4 Nov 2015 14:08:20 +0000, you wrote:
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>> https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473745/Factsheet-Internet_Connection_Records.pdf <https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/473745/Factsheet-Internet_Connection_Records.pdf>
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>>> However, without the retention of ICRs, resolving an IP address back to a single user will often not be possible as multiple users may be associated with that IP address. ICRs therefore provide the unique identifier to distinguish between different users of a shared IP address.
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>> What?  What?  What is this on about?  I’m guessing it means you need to store whatever the token was that was used to issue an IP number (IMEI, modem MAC, etc), but it’s surely not going to be able to do anyhing about downstream NAT?
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