Please, the intent of that sentence is to say that the ISP cannot set the destination IP address for the content. The intervening backbones don't do that, they merely copy it to the next hop as the MAC addresses are modified to send it along it's way. The RECIPIENT is DETERMINED (set) by the originator of the communication. There are two hosts which could be argued to participate in this process, and they are at the ends of the conversation. The routers in between do not meet the test. If this is the basis of your argument, multicast backbones would be a legal liability. How about a 1-800 conference circuit? The concept is
On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 11:46, Owen DeLong wrote: *snip* the same, as is the level of content participation. The difference is the legal protection offered to the voice common-carrier is greater than what is offered to IP carriers. -- Jeff S Wheeler jsw@five-elements.com Software Development Five Elements, Inc http://www.five-elements.com/~jsw/