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Just to throw my oar in on the caching/copyright front...
I'm one of the techies who help out on running the JANET Web Cache
Service, and have been lurking on this list for the last couple of
years. We're currently trying to figure out the status of the
Amendment which could be construed as banning WWW caching. Since
caching is vital to most European ISPs and National Research Networks
(most of the stuff your punters want is located in the States), we
should be able to organise a pretty large scale lobbying campaign
against it.
Our current SLA is a bit vague about things like how long we have to
cache objects for, because at the time it was being drawn up there was
only the historical data from HENSA (previous operators) to work with,
and it turns out that their service was on a much smaller scale. So,
in principal we could simply disable caching of objects, and pass them
straight through the JANET 'caches' as though they were routers. That
would mean that (according to the UKERNA charging system) the JANET
sites using our caches would still be able to avoid the JISC tax on
incoming US link usage.
One thing we can't do, BTW, is redirect people to different content -
e.g. send them to HENSA rather than webtechs.com. That's expressly
forbidden by the SLA, and has its own set of legal problems :-)
Martin
PS For more info & contact details: <URL:http://wwwcache.ja.net/>
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