US/Canada International border concerns for routing

Hiers, David David.Hiers at cdk.com
Wed Aug 9 14:11:28 UTC 2017


That is what our lawyers are starting to figure out, too.  Very glad to see them converging on the tribal wisdom.

Cheers,

David


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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Kerr
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 6:03 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: US/Canada International border concerns for routing

Canadian  here who's evaluated service providers and dealt with legal requirements for our customers...

Generally we weren't worried about data travelling through the US based on
normal internet routes, as long as it was encrypted.   The thing we usually
specified in RFPs was that the data could never be stored in the US.

On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 at 17:52 Dave Cohen <craetdave at gmail.com> wrote

> It seems to me the original question was asking about it more from a 
> legal perspective, in other words does Canadian traffic have to stay in Canada.
> IANAL (or a Canadian), but the answer is "mostly, no, especially as 
> related to publicly routed traffic" as should be evidenced based on 
> what's already been discussed here. In other words, there is 
> restricted traffic but unless you're making a play for MAN/WAN type 
> service on owned infrastructure, those requirements are unlikely to arise.
>
> To support the macro point, there is some big-boy level peering in 
> Toronto but not really much else outside that, but there are plenty of 
> routes that don't cross the border if you don't have to jump networks 
> to your destination, for example going to an AWS on ramp in Canada 
> using a native partner network, especially in the Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal.
>
> Dave Cohen
> craetdave at gmail.com
>
> > On Aug 8, 2017, at 8:41 PM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
> >
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> >> On Aug 8, 2017, at 5:33 PM, Clayton Zekelman <clayton at MNSi.Net> wrote:
> >> =20
> >> =20
> >> =20
> >> With the peering policies of the major Canadian ISPs, you're 
> >> virtually =
> > guaranteed to hairpin through the US on most paths.
> >> =20
> >> Robellus (Rogers, Bell & Telus) will peer with you at any of their 
> >> =
> > major Canadian peering points, such as NYC, Chicago or LA.
> >
> > To be fair, Rogers does peer in Toronto.  Along with New York, 
> > Chicago, = Seattle, and Ashburn.
> >
> >                                -Bill
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