Re: Google wants to be your Internet

[Marshall Eubanks <tme () multicasttech com>]

Hello;

On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Daniel Golding wrote:

> One interesting point - they plan to use Broadband over Power Line  
> (BPL) technology to do this. Meter monitoring is the killer app for  
> BPL, which can then also be used for home broadband, Meter reading  
> is one of the top costs and trickiest problems for utilities.

If they control the network, why is doing this with IPv6 out of the  
question ?

It seems like a good fit to me.

Regards
Marshall


> - Dan
>
> On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>
> > * nanog () shankland org (Jim Shankland) [Mon 22 Jan 2007, 18:21 CET]:
> > > "Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog () subspacefield org> writes:
> > > > IIRC, someone representing the electrical companies approached  
> > > > someone representing network providers, possibly the IETF, to  
> > > > ask about the feasibility of using IP to monitor the electrical  
> > > > meters throughout the US....
> > > > The response was "yeah, well, maybe with IPv6".
> > >
> > > Which is nonsense.  More gently, it's only true if you not only  
> > > want to use IP to monitor electrical meters, but want the use the  
> > > (global) Internet to monitor electrical meters.
> > >
> > > I'd love to hear the business case for why my home electrical  
> > > meter needs to be directly IP-addressable from an Internet cafe  
> > > in Lagos.
> >
> > It's not nonsense.  Those elements need to be unique.  RFC1918  
> > isn't unique enough (think what happens during a corporate merger).
> >
> >
> >         -- Niels.