Lucky Green writes:
There is one thing about the proposed minor flag addition to IP that I don't understand. [No, I am not surprised by this. Mandatory authorization to establish a connection and an "Internet Driver License", probably in the form or a smart card are coming].
If my computer creates the IP packet, what is there to prevent me from modifying the value of the "Minor/Adult" flag at my leisure?
Nothing prevents you from doing that, not that there is any place to put such a flag. Moreover, it is highly unclear what the semantics are in general, or how an application would know about them, or what you do in tunnelling such packets, or what it means in a TCP stream if some packets are flagged and some aren't, etc, etc. The whole thing is a crock of shit. (Normally, I wouldn't say that but I'm trying to violate the CDA as often as possible these days.) Its yet another case of idiots who don't know technology pretending that technical people are magicians who can just do anything by waving a wand, and if we say something can't be done it must mean that we are being stubborn or some such. Reminds me of the train disaster section of "Atlas Shrugged". Ah, well. Perry