On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:38:40 EST, Sean Donelan said: > Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, > and proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and > be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and pure. What's the networking equivalent of "remember to build your water intake *upstream* of your sewage plant"? Or, more accurately - "how do you get all those people with private wells^Wcomputers to *not* insist on building their leach fields uphill of their wells?". There's a limit to what an ISP can do to make it "crustal clear and pure" without an incredibly intrusive presence. The technically easy way is what many corporations do - Borg the boxes into an Active Directory domain, and impose fascist controls via Group Policy (for all of my anti-MS ranting, I'll grant the AD/GP stuff *is* pretty slick ideas for corporate PC lockdown). But how do you sell that idea to the consumer user?
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