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RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
From: Brad Knowles <brad () stop mail-abuse org>
Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2005 21:53:24 +0200
At 1:02 PM -0500 2005-07-07, Kuhtz, Christian wrote:
It doesn't scale. Regardless of Moore's law, there are some fundamental physical limits that constrain technology.I would contend that is not true. What says that every device inside a company, family, enterprise etc has to be available and reachable by anyone on the planet in a bidirectional fashion as far as session initiation is concerned?
The problem is that you don't know, a priori, which devices will or will not need to be fully externally addressable. Even if we talk about just mobile phones, it's easy to imagine billions of devices world-wide that will need connectivity in the near future.
Most devices won't need full bidirectional connectivity all the time, no. But it's also easy to imagine circumstances where you decide that you need to change the setting on the VCR or check the stove to see if you forgot and left it turned on.
If you can give all the devices in your home full bidirectional connectivity (via a secure method, of course), then a whole lot of options open up that would otherwise not have been possible.
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Current thread:
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008, (continued)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Scott McGrath (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 James (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Nils Ketelsen (Jul 08)
- RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Kuhtz, Christian (Jul 07)
- RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Kuhtz, Christian (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jul 07)
- RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Kuhtz, Christian (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Andre Oppermann (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 David Conrad (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Steven M. Bellovin (Jul 07)
- RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Brad Knowles (Jul 07)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Alexei Roudnev (Jul 08)
- Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Scott McGrath (Jul 08)
- RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008 Kuhtz, Christian (Jul 07)