Re: Enforcing the CDA improperly may pervert Internet architecture

At  2:51 AM 4/9/96 -0400, Declan B. McCullagh wrote:
>...
>The DoJ and Taylor are going to argue that IP V6 can include such an
>adult/minor tag in each datagram! One of their key witnesses is Dan
>Olsen, the head of the computer science department at Brigham Young
>University and the incoming director of the Human Computer Interaction
>Institute at CMU.

Declan - 

One of the migration paths suggested for IPV4 to IPV6 migration is to
tunnel IPV4 packets within IPV6 packets.  IPV4 packets do not provide for
an adult/minor tag, so until the transition to IPV6 is fairly well along,
this approach will be ineffective.

If the people who are worried about minor's accessing smut want something
this century, they should go with PICS.

Regards - Bill


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Bill Frantz writes:
> One of the migration paths suggested for IPV4 to IPV6 migration is to
> tunnel IPV4 packets within IPV6 packets.  IPV4 packets do not provide for
> an adult/minor tag, so until the transition to IPV6 is fairly well along,
> this approach will be ineffective.

Neither, for that matter, do IPv6 packets -- there is no provision for
them. Furthermore, were anyone to create an end to end header of that
sort, it would be eight bytes of wasted space in every packet in the
net, especially since the implementation of such a tag is a technical
impossibility as there is no way to force the originating system to
tell the truth.

The internet and the culture are coming into conflict in a big way,
and I don't believe that both of them can survive.

Perry