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Background & Scope

Current lawful intercept (LI) standards provide no means for the notification of conditions that may impact the quality, completeness, and continuation of an intercept. These conditions could be temporary or permanent errors, exceptions, and anomalies. This standard provides an optional capability for reporting these conditions to the law enforcement collection function.

This standard can be used optionally as a means of reporting certain conditions encountered during an intercept. Because messages defined in this standard have a unique object identifier, this standard can be used in conjunction with any other lawful intercept standard. How this standard is used, if at all, is determined by the service provider and by the law enforcement collection function.

This provides a specification for Error and Exception Reporting in an LAES Environment, should interested parties voluntarily choose to implement such functionality. It is not intended to be considered a "safe harbor standard" under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (CALEA).

Any requirements or standards language (i.e., "shall," "should") is used strictly in the context of ensuring that this document is inherently sound and provides appropriate guidance to implementers.

Purpose

This standard is provided as means for conveying information that might affect the quality, completeness, and continuation of an intercept because of exceptional conditions, such as errors.