doug@OpenMind.com (Doug Cutrell): [I haven't seen this on the list yet, but it looks as if it was meant for all]
Subject: Re: Reserved DC-Net IP addresses
I think you miss the point... there is a need to have a specific "broadcast" IP address that "speaks" for the whole DC-net. This is so that someone from within the net can send a message anonymously to *outside* the net. The members within the net could use standard IP addresses, I would presume.
Eric was talking about formally allocating a range of addresses for IP. That's like putting up an RFC for each remailer, to 'notarize' the fact that the remailer is not the real source. Any IP address can be the apparent source for the DC-Net messages. It only has to be acknowledged by all the participants (just as remailer users have to know about the mailer address). You may need to publicize a _disclaimer_ as IP packets don't carry Comment: lines. You don't need to formally allocate the address, though, and certainly shouldn't have to go to the IETF - that's hardly anarchy! One might have DCN IPs bouncing just as remailers do, and use DCNping to see which are up ;-) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rishab Aiyer Ghosh "Clean the air! clean the sky! wash the wind! rishab@dxm.ernet.in take stone from stone and wash them..." Voice/Fax/Data +91 11 6853410 Voicemail +91 11 3760335 H 34C Saket, New Delhi 110017, INDIA