On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 5:30 PM, Mark Foster
When TICSA was being rolled out there were roadshows held in the main centres, where GCSB folks were at great pains to point out that they were keen to work with the telcos and ISP's affected by the law. They were very clear that there would be no need to delay outage remediation or require service interruption of any sort in order to comply with TICSA reporting requirements. (though retrospective notification would be required if the change didn't fall into an exception case).
There was plenty of open and honest communication, including at the last two NZNOG conferences. With much credit to both Police and NCSC, they've been quite accessible and relatively easy to engage, and the whole thing has been pretty drama-free (at least in my experience). Time will tell, of course.
And just a +1 to this in general. The law might suck, but the implementation by the GCSB has been good. To re-iterate previous points there is no reason for a provider to be held back by the TICSA at all with an emergency outage. Fix the issue however you can and then deal with the TICSA afterwards. Dave