Hi All, After reading this slashdot article:
http://www.circleid.com/article/215_0_1_0_C/ which discusses the background 'noise' that has been increasing on the internet, I began thinking about the possibility of a "sub-net" for lack of a better term. Bascially the idea would follow that of www.wafreenet.org however instead of providing a free network outside of the internet (free as in beer and free as in spam :) it would be created inside the internet using tunnels and trusted peers (like PGP). This would then give us the ability to remove peers from the network if they do not comply with the "sub-nets" constitution (ie. they allow spam relays, send spam themselves, relay viruses, DoS attacks etc). Obviously this subnet would need to either utilize IPv6 or Private Address space (which would need to be handed out by a central organisation). Peers would also have the ability only accept "subnet" traffic or internet traffic also, but never relay anything from the outside in and vise-versa. Maybe this is too grand an idea, but it doesn't seem too hard to me and although it wouldn't stop the background traffic, if noone was listening why would it continue? Has this been discussed before and I was spring cleaning my cave at the time?? Let me know what you think. Adam. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
