[128882] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: end-user ipv6 deployment and concerns about privacy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Thu Aug 19 09:53:57 2010
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:49:34 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: Joakim Aronius <joakim@aronius.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100819123007.GA27242@maya.aronius.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Joakim Aronius wrote:
> But what about the internal communication in the customer premises? How do they connect to their NAS, media players, printers, TVs etc? Of course there is UPnP, DLNA and different other kinds of magic but I imagine that most home users actually configure IP addresses at some point.
>
The wise setup will use routed and non-routed addressing internally.
This is how IPv6 was designed to handle it. Devices will be found
through multicast, dynamic dns, or other means.
Jack
