You need confirmation? Ok.
http://www.askcalea.net < very "sterile" reading, government speak.
http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Digest/2006/dd061214.html
About mid page in the above URL.
A little more explanation on this next link.
http://blog.tmcnet.com/lawful-intercept/filing-date-for-calea-monitoring-report-upon-us.asp
This link should help a bit, too.
http://www.fcc.gov/calea/
Basically, it has now become unlawful to connect anyone to the internet faster than 200kbps without federal intervention, registration of your service, and statements of compliance with regulation.
Many ISP's don't even know they have to comply yet.
There is a major difference between ISP surveillance capability and ISP record-keeping. What is described in the thread is not merely ensuring the ability to monitor user activity persuant court orders but rather maintaining a permanent, comprehensive record of user activity. Those are hardly the same.. As best I can tell, CALEA does the former, not the latter.
Well, that explains the degredation in the satellite link service on the oil rig I work on. Jeepers, that has slowed down--it used to be multiples faster.