From:      Nyle Landas nlandas@mail.boces.com
To:        cipa-study@ntia.doc.gov, cjones@boces.com, mmaryhug@mail.boces.com
Date:      Fri, Jun 28, 2002  1:22 PM
Subject:   The right way to help everyone filter the Internet

Name: Nyle F. Landas
Institution: Jefferson-Lewis BOCES
20104 NYS ROUTE 3
Watertown, NY 13601
RE: How government can make simple virtually foolproof Internet 
Filtering possible.

Instead of requiring Internet filtering in its existing form, I think 
the government would serve its constituents better if it helped make 
filtering objectionable materials easier by making one simple change to 
the assignments of Internet Domain Names. If the government working with 
the Internet governing body would create a new domain such as .bad and 
require all pornographic sites to register as a .bad domain  Internet 
Filtering would be extremely simple to implement.

For example: Instead of playboy.com the governement would be require it 
to be playboy.bad. Web Browsers could then simply have a setting built 
in to them that said if someone types any address with .bad on the end 
it would not go to the web page.*

The bottom line is by classifying the sites the government wants to 
censor from minors into a seperate domain it can make virtually 
foolproof Internet filtering possible.

*Technical Side Note: Every .bad domain would have to have reverse 
lookup established on its IP address. That way  if someone typed in an 
IP address the Web Browser instead of a domain name the Web Browser 
could also check to see if that IP address was associated with a .bad 
domain by doing a reverse lookup on the IP Address.

Thank you,
-Nyle Landas
Technology Coordinator