The EU Regulation 2022/2065, better known as the Digital Services Act, imposes a number of requirements on “intermediary services.” The Act defines three classes of intermediary services: “mere conduit,” “caching,” and “hosting.” All intermediary services are required to comply with orders from relevant authorities to remove or disable access to illegal content, designate a representative in the EU, and publish information on the terms and conditions for the service. Greater obligations are imposed on hosting services, particularly “online platforms” and “very large online platforms.”
With the exception of F5 Distributed Cloud CDN, which is a “caching” service, all of F5’s commercial services act as a “mere conduit.” F5 has designated NGINX, 3/F, 89/90 South Mall, Cork, Ireland T12 RPP0 as its representative in the European Union for the purposes of the DSA. The terms and conditions for use of our services are detailed in our Acceptable Use Policy .
