There are more details about Livingston's Exon Box (they call it ChoiceNet) available at http://www.livingston.com/Marketing/Press/choicenet_press.html . My kneejerk reaction was to hate this thing too, but now I'm not so sure. If I was responsible for the Internet connectivity for a K-12 school system, I would want this capability in a big way. I see the Livingston product as an enabling technology. The obvious associated risk is Big Brother deciding, "If one router CAN do it, then every router MUST do it!" The idea of having a Naughty_Enabled Bit in IPv6 is, of course, even worse; but I'm glad it isn't my job to exlpain why it is horrid to a Federal judge. Dan On Tue, 9 Apr 1996 02:51:19 -0400 (EDT) "Declan B. McCullagh" wrote: [ SNIP ]
Enforcing the CDA Improperly May Pervert Internet Architecture
by David P. Reed [ SNIP ] I just read in Inter@ctive Week (March 25, 1996) that Livingston plans to announce an "Exon box" - a router that is designed to enable ISPs to restrict access to "indecent sites" or unrated sites unless an "adult" enters an authorization code when opening a session to enable the router to transmit packets to the site.
-- Dan Marner dmarner@mis.nu.edu Network Weasel National University "Not on MY network!"