On 7/27/07, Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What I would expect is that you still have to obey lawful intercept > legislation, so you need to interconnect with the government "black > box" rooms, and these are at the major IXs in the country. (And I've > repeatedly heard that in the Netherlands, for some time in the past at > least, the way the ISPs got rid of the lawful intercept obligation was > to have the AMS-IX send a copy of *all* the traffic to the government > black box. Not that they had to do that, but it was the easiest / > cheapest way.)
Easiest/cheapest for the Dutch ISPs. Not for the government though! AMS-IX can be 200GBits a second, so I wonder if this was an exercise in killing the snoopers with kindness. If there were any such obligation, I'd expect the real reason not to > be "the egress country can snoop", but "it is harder for the > originating country to snoop". Perhaps. The French and German govts are not keen on their officials using Blackberrys 'cos all European BlackBerry traffic goes via a building near my house (single point of failure? we don't need no stinkin' redundancy!) in London.