For all anyone knows this might already be being done. If it's not it could save the government a lot of money when it comes time to build the next version of the web. The current system uses IP addresses formatted in such a way that the root servers can pretty much look through something akin to a phone book to determine the address the user is looking for. These addresses are based on a very specific format. Anything that's not in that format won't be recognized and the browser will display a message saying something like "page not found". There's no reason a second version of the root server phone books couldn't be created though. The format for addresses in this phone book would be entirely different (and each address would be encrypted to help prevent line snifferes from even coming close to guessing what it is). Once in place government agencies could send messages using the web in a layer that's outside the current system, opening whole new channels at a minimal cost.

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