[14476] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Web caching liability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Fri Jan 2 12:00:12 1998
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 1998 11:49:36 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPP.3.96.980102075629.21705D-100000@hornet.ns.net>; from Turnando Fuad <fuad@ns.net> on Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 08:23:00AM -0800
On Fri, Jan 02, 1998 at 08:23:00AM -0800, Turnando Fuad wrote:
> I would be curious to the liability issues surrounding the use of web
> proxy servers and Cisco Cache engines. ISP/NSPs traditionally only
> forwards packets or are at least responsible to a certain degree for
> resolution of IP addresses from DNS and routers. The use of these web
> cache technologies allows ISP/NSPs to now *intelligently determine* what
> data the requesting client receives. With web proxy server, at least the
> client is aware(we hope) that data is being cached but the Cisco Cache
> engine makes that process transparent. As we are all well aware, these
> intelligent implementations don't always work. It seems that we are on
> slippery grounds making content decisions for end user requests. And
> doesn't it become even messier with the suggested/proposed web caching at
> the MAEs or at the NSP level?
It may well be worse than that, depending on judicial interpretations
of the Cubby and Stratton-Oakmont cases. I suspect that S-O wouldn't
apply to this circumstance, but who can tell what a judge will think.
Cheers,
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