who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

Thu Nov 18 17:29:50 UTC 2004

In article <cistron.1100797360.3557.15.camel at firenze.zurich.ibm.com>,
Jeroen Massar  <jeroen at unfix.org> wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 16:40 +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
>> That depends on the jurisdiction. In many parts of the world,
>> downloading is NOT illegal. But making copyrighted files available
>> for download is illegal (without the proper autorization, ofcourse).
>
>Thus... say a newsserver full of illegal stuff is quite illegal?
>Or that other nice example 'proxy servers', they store the data and then
>relay it. A router could be said to 'store' the data also (in registers
>for like a zillionth microsecond ;) and 

In general, store-and-forward and caching are allowed and
not illegal. Yet.

Mike.