Steve,

I think this is a very good writeup, but it's missing
the security considerations section :-)/2

Thinking for 5 minutes about intermediaries vs. not and security
it isn't obvious to me that one is better than the other.
A few points:
 - A solution with an intermediary requires on the order of N + M trust
   relationships for N clients and M services. A solution without requires
   N * M. Are there fundamental differences in how to do key management in
   the two cases?
 - An intermediary would imply putting all the security eggs in one basket.

I think it is important to think about this some more. While the devices
in a single home can rely on physical security combined with firewalls
I think the fact that folks are talking about DNS discovery as 
reaching from the home networks into the ISP means that we need to
take security a bit more seriously in this space.

  Erik

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