On Sun, 15 Feb 2004, Jon R. Kibler wrote: > > To me, the approach you advocate is something like saying "do away with any > centralized > law enforcement, force everyone to carry guns, and if anyone suspects that someone > else is committing a crime, they are obliged to shoot them." I believe that blocking
So, what Sean is proposing, and what you accurately describe (mostly) here is how the Internet is intended to be run... Minus the 'and the people running the systems should be "smart" or "careful" or "considerate"' of course. There was never any central control/enforcement for the Internet, and time and again Governments have been shown that its next to impossible to BE that central enforcer... With the exception, possibly, of China though one could successfully argue that their firewall isn't working so well if hundreds of thousands of hosts on their networks can get compromised and flood out spoofed ip datagrams, eh?
