On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Tony Hain wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > You are assuming that there is only one boundary in that > > consumers house. > No, I am assuming there is at least one boundry between the consumer and > other networks. > > I can > > assure you that the teenage daugther or son in that house will have a > > completely different opinion on who's got the right to access > > what light > > control in her or his room. Particularly if there is a > > brother or sister in the > > next room. > > How will you solve that kind of access control, one site > > local from another > > within the same site? Buy one filtering box for each room? > Teenagers can go to work and buy their own boundary router if they choose. > > ... > > Maybe that is only possible if all light switches are able to > > have global > > access and unique addresses? > draft-hinden-ipv6-global-local-addr-02.txt creates unique addresses, even in > the case where the teenagers have independent boundary routers. Global > access is not generically necesssary or desired. To accomplish your neighbor > scenario, it would make more sense to put PA addresses on the specific > allowed devices than to have the whole network continually exposed to dos > attacks. > Tony
Is this telling us, that IPv6 is being introduced in more than just the internet. like a replacement to phone numbers, for example. -- Michael Mielke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.mielke.cc/~michael/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
