On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:23 AM, james woodyatt <j...@apple.com> wrote:

> On Mar 6, 2012, at 07:15 , Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> > "Mark" == Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org> writes:
> >    Mark> A significant percentage of home machines will roam and those
> >    Mark> machines will need to be able to register their current
> >    Mark> address in the DNS.  I do this today when my Mac roams.  TSIG
> >    Mark> is unavoidable and cheap.  UPDATE itself is relatively cheap.
> >
> > Are you asking for a link-local/mDNS-across-the-homenet leap-of-faith
> > way to do key establishment so that TSIG can be initialized?
>
>
> The alternative is to delegate all that business to 3rd parties with big
> data centers in the proverbial cloud.  Yes, that means that you're relying
> on Internet service to be constantly available to resolve service locations
> on your local home network, but it does seem to work reasonably well today.
>

In some parts of the world, maybe, like california.

Elsewhere, say in Nicaragua... not so much. I would personally prefer that
those designing this stuff with *any* dependencies on centralized services
spend some time doing research in south america, Libya, africa, eastern
europe, the australian outback, and places like that...


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