Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
Jeroen,
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From: Jeroen Massar jeroen@unfix.org To: Stanislav Sinyagin ssinyagin@yahoo.com Cc: swinog@swinog.ch Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 2:43:39 PM Subject: Dreaming of anarchy (Was: killer app for IPv6)
Stanislav Sinyagin wrote:
some time ago we already discussed that there's no killer application that
would
push the ipv6 deployment forward.
[dreamy mood on]
- If EU governments would declare that copyrighted content sharing over ipv6
network is
completely legal, then we get immediately a huge demand. It could be limited
in time to, say,
5 years.
Useless, and even if it was not legal, already done on a very grand scale. Fixed your subject for you btw.
it actually would motivate people who use P2P today to move to a more legal side.
How exactly would it do that? People using P2P (and don't forget NTTP and various other methods) for downloading illegal (aka stuff that is copyrighted) content do so because they don't want to pay for the content.
Lowering the pricing and making that content available from the copyright owners is the only way to solve that problem.
And still then there will be people who will not want to pay anyway...
- With the introduction of ipv6, there's a chance to replace our poor old
SMTP with
something more protected from spamming. I wonder if anyone has done anything
in this direction.
I guess everyone is going to use the same delivery mechanisms as in ipv4, but
isn't that wrong?
How exactly would an IP protocol protect against spam (layer 7 / content) ?
If you read carefully, I dream of a new application-level protocol instead of SMTP.
That is all not on the IP level.
Anyway transition to ipv6 requires some significant IT effort, so this could be combined with upgrading their mail servers to some hypothetically new mail transfer protocol.
Nice dream, not happening, for the same reason why IPv6 PI exists.
Only way to make that happen is to build it and get enough operators convinced that they have more power that way than what they currently have.
Also note that there is nothing wrong with SMTP itself, it is the mail setups that are broken and are able to do spamming. The bigger problem there being that abuse is not properly handled/resolved.
Greets, Jeroen