Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist)

Fighting the worms of mass destruction (Economist)

What anonymity?
At the edge of the network I administer, there is a router.
Within modest reason, packets comming FROM my router are auditable.
If someone has a problem with these packets, they can find the
source IP, from there they can find the domain, from there they
can find the admin contact, which is accurate. They can contact
me, the admin person, and I'll look into it.

Now of course in practice most of this is spoofable, and therefore can
be endrun. But IPv6 addresses a lot of those problems.

Way back in 93, an ISP I worked at was having some real problems with
packets emminating from a nic with an ip address belonging to the
biggest of faceless computer corporations (not MS), there was
no contact information in their nic record at all. (hint, their
nic record dates to march 86)

The early to mid 90s approach of the mom an pop ISP was a good model.
When the bigdogs got into the game (aol, et al) things went straight down
hill fast.

ICANN promised to fix this issue of meaningless NIC records. And
they really havn't done much. Have they?

Trusted computing?
How about a trust model where a nic record has legitimate
contact information or packets from that domain stop being routed? Not much
else need be done. Sure, it's overly simple, but still it would
be easier to implement and "sell" than these "drivers license"
or dna registry invasions that get tossed about so freely.