Re: Hypothetical design question

["Louis Solomon [SteelBytes]" <louis () steelbytes com>]

having a reliable (and automatable) way of contacting the owner of a PC 
at a

given IP would be a major step forward in combatting email born viruses.



You mean implement IPv6/Ipsec across the board?
It adds MAC addresses in addition to IP addresses to the payload.


no,
having a fixed ID is not what I'm after.
I want to be able to email the owner of the PC that sent me a virus.
eg, do some whois style command on the IP to findout out if it is static, or 
dynamic.  if static, then have some mapping from ip to email.  if dynamic, 
then have a contact email for the isp.


Louis Solomon
www.steelbytes.com