Re: Google wants to be your Internet

[Niels Bakker <niels=nanog () bakker net>]

* 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.