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

["Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels () cistron nl>]

In article <cistron.1100797360.3557.15.camel () firenze zurich ibm com>,
Jeroen Massar  <jeroen () 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.