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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!news.cais.net!news.ac.net!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!csnews!boulder!coopnews.coop.net!hops.entertain.com!usenet From: dwatson@abwam.com (Darryl Watson) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.secur Subject: Re: Communications Decency Act may corrupt protocols Date: 24 Apr 1996 16:00:25 GMT Organization: ABWAM, Inc. Lines: 28 Message-ID: <4llj6p$3j7@hops.entertain.com> References: <4l7k5h$if1@alca.Helsinki.FI> <4litt0$5n5@MICRO-HEART-OF-GOLD.MIT.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: 199.45.153.241 X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.protocols.tcp-ip:44072 comp.unix.bsd.misc:841 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:3360 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:18118 comp.unix.osf.misc:3051 comp.unix.sco.misc:16772 In article <4litt0$5n5@MICRO-HEART-OF-GOLD.MIT.EDU>, jc@eddie.mit.edu (John Chambers) says: > [snip] >Perhaps this is a very practical idea. This is not materially >different from the "perimeter network" model that a lot of >organizations are using for security. The idea is fairly simple, and >is described in a lot of texts on security. The organization simply >provides two parallel networks, one an "internal" network that is not >connected to the outside world, and the other the "perimeter" network >that is connected. A small number of gateways between the two >implement the organization's access policies. > >We might start suggesting to the politicians that this be adopted for >the Internet. All the FQDNs in the ".us" domain will be considered >internal to the USA and subject to its jurisdiction. All other domains >will be declared legally external to the USA. > [etc.] I've got a better idea. Let's leave the Internet alone, and anyone who wishes to control ideas, speech, and thoughts, can build their OWN internet which has a gateway connection to the 'real' internet. That way, anyone who builds their own net can impose whatever insane rules and censorship desired, and not affect the rest of us. We could call it 'OstrichNet'.