[98254] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sam Stickland)
Fri Jul 27 04:22:10 2007
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 09:19:43 +0100
From: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
To: surfer@mauigateway.com
CC: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20070726105519.FF93A65E@resin11.mta.everyone.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Scott Weeks wrote:
>
> --- andy.loukes@thecloud.net wrote:
>
> What (if any) are the legal implications of taking internet destined
> traffic in one country and egressing it in another (with an ip block
> correctly marked for the correct country).
>
> Somebody mentioned to me the other day that they thought the Dutch
> government didn't allow an ISP to take internet traffic from a Dutch
> citizen and egress in another country because it makes it easy for the
> local country to snoop.
> ----------------------------------------------
>
>
> That's funny. I've always thought of the internet as a global, borderless entity where ideas and information are shared without restraint. Perhaps it's time to whap the gov't with a clue bat?
>
> scott
>
Yes, but laws dictate that not all information can be shared without
restraint. The EU, for example, has laws preventing the export of
personal information to countries deemed to have weaker privacy
protection laws.
There's also grey areas (that may simply result from legal departments
not having enough technical knowledge). For example, I've worked with
companies before that have had the rights to stream certain sporting
events to certain countries only. Even if you were only streaming to UK
ISPs and UK IP addresses (via what ever checking mechanisms were deemed
adequate), legal departments tend to have quite a lot to say on the
matter if you were egressing that traffic, at say, AMS-IX.
Sam
