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Charging per packet, and blocking packets both sound good in practice, and I
support them in theory.
They are problematic though, the way the internet is currrently engineered.
Packet headers are too easy to spoof. The internet is built on the notion that
traffic typically isn't malicious and verifying everything would add
unacceptable delay.
I'm OK with that, for now. Redoing the internet basically means redoing a LOT
of what the IETF did. And that's a big job!
++Lar
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