At 12:38 PM 4/9/96 -0500, Scott Brickner wrote:
Wait a second. I don't know that it's really as impossible as you think. Given the CDA advocates' hypothesis that anonymity is a Bad Thing (tm), it's reasonable for them to assume that the ISP can arrange to have a policy requiring that it know who's making the SLIP/PPP connection. It's not too hard to have *every* packet generated by a given connection flagged with an IP option indicating "adult" or "minor".
Of course that doesn't overcome the "technical problem" of getting the IETF to adopt that change in the protocols and getting a significant number of sites to adopt the new protocol. Even if you impose a substitutte on the IETF, it doesn't stop them from wandering off and creating their independent protocols and seeing whether the "official" or the "unofficial" get adopted. DCF