> The same helpdesk she calls when she encounters a weird problem in her > network connectivity, or in her PC. Most likely you ;-) > > (This is a much more generic problem, not one specific to this > scenario, obviously.)
But in this particular case you seem to be arguing that plug&pray is sufficient while I argue that we should aim for plug&play; I think the futuristic goal is that wiring together network devices shouldn't be more complex than plugging in electrical appliances. > You are making assumption that those boxes would also be acting as > routers (in the ND-proxy mode) by default, right? I don't, and I > don't think doing that would make a lot of sense. No. I'm only making the same assumption that underlies ndproxy as well as the zerouter discussion; there will be L2s that do not support IEEE 802 bridging. If you disagree with this assumption we don't need ndproxy or zerouter for the home networking case - IEEE 802 bridging has already solved the problem. Given that you have different types of L2s in common use in the home, a subset of of consumer electronics will connect to multiple types of L2s. Question is what these boxes implement to make the home network plug&play. I'm not assuming the solution will be at L3; there are L2.5 solutions possible as well. Erik -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
