[14562] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Web caching liability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kent W. England)
Wed Jan 7 10:30:32 1998
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 1998 14:40:06 -0800
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: "Kent W. England" <kwe@geo.net>
In-Reply-To: <199801021746.JAA03766@wisdom.rc.vix.com>
At Friday, Paul A Vixie wrote:
>At the WIPO meeting in December 1996, the consensus was that mirroring
>ran afoul of copyright and license issues, and that caching did not.
>Caching was deemed an automated (no human intervention required) response
>to demanded traffic, and mirroring was considered a proactive human act.
>
Another interesting question than the intellectual property issue, is the
question of what a NSP/ISP might do with the statistics on proxy traffic --
the numbers on hits, bytes, etc -- and the usage profiles of individuals
using the proxy.
I think it is only a matter of time and opportunity before some ISPs would
begin to exploit revenue opportunities associated with this new gatekeeping
role, should it develop.
--Kent
