Re: IPv6 end user addressing

[mikea <mikea () mikea ath cx>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 05:49:03PM -0430, Greg Ihnen wrote:

> > What standards?  The RFID tag on the milk carton will, essentially, replace the bar code once RFID tags become 
> > cheap enough. It'll be like an uber-barcode with a bunch more information.
> >
> > For keeping track of how much, cheap sensitive pressure transducers will know by the position of the RFID tag 
> > combined with the weight of the thing at that location in the refrigerator. There's no new standard required.
> >
> > The technology to do this exists today. The integration and mainstream acceptance is still years, if not decades 
> > off, but, IPv6 should last for decades, so, if we don't plan for at least the things we can see coming today and 
> > already know feasible ways to implement, we're doomed for the other unexpected things we don't see coming.

> What reads the RFID's and the pressure sensors? What server or application receives this data and deals with it 
> according to the user's desires? How does that data or the information and alerts this system would generate get to 
> the user's devices? There has to be a device in the home or a server somewhere for a service the home owner 
> subscribes to which keeps an inventory of all these things and acts on it. 
>
> Do you really think it's going to be common place for people to have this kind of technology and more importantly use 
> it?

And why do you think the fridge manufacturers will get it right in
cheaply-made consumer-grade products, when it's not being done right in
muh pricier automated self-check-out checkstands? I avoid self-check-out
checkstands because they fail in one way or another so damnably often.
My last encounter had the software failing to realize that a package of
100 nuts and 100 screws weighed a significan amount; the result was that
for each such package I tried to check out, I had to have someone from
the store come over, log in, do something, and log out again. Five times
total. 

*Not* satisfactory. 

I don't expect that the fridge makers will do any better. 

-- 
Mike Andrews, W5EGO
mikea () mikea ath cx
Tired old sysadmin