[TriLUG] Connectivity to china

[Greg Brown]

I've been down that path..  basically what the Chinese officials are 
worried about is the ability of someone in China to use a "private" 
network to then gain access to "inappropriate materials" like why one 
economic theory or system might be better than another.  Whatever.  So 
China has created what is fondly know of as "The Great Firewall of 
China" to filter out such bad things.

So you can do one of two things:

1. place a govt. approved filtering firewall behind whatever mechanism 
you choose to interconnect your offices (leased line, VPN over 
Internet, whatever)
2. sign a waiver saying that you have such filters in place.. but be 
warned, the chinese can be a bit harsh if they think you have signed a 
waiver saying you are filtering and it turns out you are not.

That's what I recall about the entire process.  Granted this was in 
1999, so things may have changed a bit.

Greg


On Monday, Aug 16, 2004, at 09:53 US/Eastern, Marvin Blackburn wrote:

> My boss has asked me to look into any "legal" issues with having some
> customers in china
> Connecting to our servers.
>
> Not really sure how to start, but would appreciate some pointers if 
> anyone
> has any.
> We use hpux (with ssh) and standard redhat linux servers.
>
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