That "Trusted Third Party" is sure to be incredibly expensive -- surely enough to drive small or even medium-sized operators out of business. Also, while there are standards for tapping ordinary phone calls, it is NOT true that there are "standards" for tapping people's Internet connections. And if there were, it would prevent innovative companies like ours from building our own equipment (which we do) which has features that no commercial product has and gives us a tremendous edge over the Big Guys. What's more, the whole notion of tapping is contrary to the architecture of the Internet, which is decentralized and "end-to-end" rather than centralized like the telephone system. You cannot guarantee that the packets will go a particular way to their destination. You cannot easily FIND them in the middle of the network, much less decrypt them if they're encrypted. The whole notion of wiretapping in the middle is contrary to the architecture of the Internet. The only sensible thing to do is tap at the ends of the connection -- which involves tapping the computer, not the ISP.