... > Well, people already use vpn's on the road and in evil places now, > it's just that they're doing it through a corpro vpn back at the > mothership. > I just want to be able to have the same choice when I'm doing this on > my own dime. As it stands, I can't do that for all intents and > purposes.
Apple's Back to My Mac, Microsoft's DirectAccess, and the SIP VPN method all rely on one important thing: a rendezvous service. Apple's solution is aimed at consumers and uses Apple's me.com domain. Microsoft's solution is aimed at corporate users and uses IT-operated servers. The SIP VPN method uses SIP proxies. We could imagine someone specifying XMPP for such a thing, too. But the prototypical "Grandma" does not have access to a rendezvous service, unless she participates in the Apple ecosystem (and uses Apple's me.com as the rendezvous service). I don't know how to make one of these systems work without a rendezvous service, and it seems nobody else does, either -- all of them rely on some sort of rendezvous service that is separate from the service provided by the typical residential ISP. -d _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
