[14568] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Web caching liability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Wed Jan 7 10:53:57 1998
From: jon@branch.net (Jon Zeeff)
To: kwe@geo.net (Kent W. England)
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 10:39:04 -0500 (EST)
Cc: paul@vix.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19980106144006.006d7008@zeus.geo.net> from "Kent W. England" at Jan 6, 98 02:40:06 pm
We could get this information via sniffing our network. We don't, but
if we did, we would only do it in a manner that would completely
protect the privacy of our customers.
I think it would be naive to believe that this isn't happening
somewhere today.
> 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.
>
