You jest, but I could actually see this becoming a thing. I envision a future dystopian internet where people first have to authenticate their network gear, PC's, laptops, cell phones, cars, trucks, e-bikes, toasters, coffee makers to a government contracted service. Once authenticated they utilize something similar to that RFC but probably instead a nonce or jwt token tied to their device that gets embedded in the packet header somehow. Then sanctioning a continent, country, state, ISP, city, company, manufacturer, distributor or person would be simply disabling their evil bits so to speak.
The push for this is starting with adult content [1] but the goal posts could easily be mounted on train car with a very long and smooth train track that only goes downhill.
The push for this is starting with adult content [1] but the goal posts could easily be mounted on train car with a very long and smooth train track that only goes downhill.
[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34726509