Hear, hear! but...


6) Too crude, how will AS people know why they have been blocked if they are blocked? Blocking whole AS might kill somebody or sombodies!
Maybe:
5.3) Block only offending addresses only from attack target with expiration time.
5.4) Contact AS operators by other means if they don't respond to email.
5.5) Require AS operators to have SIP phones, live chat and a contact person/s, or some why to know your email hasn't gone into a black hole.
5.6) If addresses proceed to attack other targets, redirect offending addresses to a "you have been blocked server" with remedies as "attacker" might be a hijacked PC. Not sure this option exists in bog standard routers but it exists in firewalls and some wi-fi hotspots. This would be routing on source address. Some sort of internet jail. Even when you arrest somebody they get food and basic necessities. You don't put them in solitary confiment without anything.

6) Off limits, nuclear option - in an interdependent world: how do you know you are not cutting off the branch you are sitting on, or an innocent is sitting on?

Retailiate, why? What is the point? What does it achieve?
That is a bit Old Testament: eye for an eye...

In the year twooooo-tousand:

- ****** releases a new version of ***** plug-in supporting the encrypted .jpgx format with time expiration field. Plug-in rolls out an automatic update...
- A new form of dyslexia is identified by researchers where sufferers can't distinguish and misuse words too & to...

;-(

Let me get this:
Step 1. You can take a screenshot.
Step 2. Somebody thinks of xxxxxxxx based xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx which stops people taking screenshots.
Step 3. You can take your digital camera to take a snapshot of the image.
Step 4. Somebody thinks up a way of xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx into images which xxx xxxxxxx by a digital cameras and stops them taking pictures.
Step 5. People start using film cameras again.
Step 6. What is so interesting in the picture in the first place?
Step 7. Get a life.
Step 0. Not too be to harsh, the plug-in would stop casual copying.