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Re: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe

  • From: Sam Stickland
  • Date: Fri Jul 27 04:24:27 2007

Scott Weeks wrote:

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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.
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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