Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe

Thu Jul 26 08:28:52 UTC 2007

Andy,

I've always wondered this as well.  Similar scenario, although not
necessarily egress in a foreign country, but transiting through.

For a brief period, we had an OC48 that carried packets on our network
between Chicago and Seattle that traversed a router of ours in Vancouver, BC
Canada.

Any legal minds here that may know the answer?

Randy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> Andy Loukes
> Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:53 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Routing public traffic across county boundaries in Europe
> 
> 
> I think this is a pretty dumb question, because I presume this is how
> most organisations save money and provide resilience.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I've done lots of searching and have our legal council investigating but
> I thought someone here might be able to point me in the direction of any
> legislation?
> 
> (I'll summarise any off-list replies)...
> Thanks,
> --
> Andy Loukes
> 
> Senior Systems Architect
> The Cloud Networks
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