Looks like the only way to shield from DOS is to raise the cost of DOS. This will eventually eliminate the low cost of Internet bandwidth, one way or another. You don't get nearly the same amount of DOS on your telephone as you do on Internet, right ? Because telephone call is not free and/or it's traceable.
And there has been creditable prototyping in this area, e.g., Camram. But not many skilled coders seem to have jumped on these projects to help out.
NDL can happen. Compare it to the early situation with cars or guns. No regulation in the beginning, you could buy or make your own and do as you please.
I know people who still do.
Then, when commerce began to depend on both (transport of goods and
force monopolies) they got regulated. I see no difference between that and
computer with an Internet link. NDL is a possible reality. It used to be normal
to drive or carry a weapon without license. These days, they catch you sooner
or later and beat you into pulp. Same thing. Dreaming about it not happening
will get you nowhere.
I think the U.S. Constitution will stand in the way of widespread adoption of NDLs. They may have regulated firearms, though these laws are widely ignored by citizens, but I have yet to see a license for owning a typewriter or PC proposed. They have already ruled numerous times that the Internet is deserving of at least as free and access as print media and political flyers (which can be anonymnous and still pass legal muster).
steve
