[136234] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Feb 1 20:55:51 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D48964D.3070109@brightok.net>
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 17:52:26 -0800
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Jack Bates wrote:
> On 2/1/2011 5:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>> I guess we can agree to disagree about this. I haven't seen one yet.
>=20
> If my coffee maker did have an IP address, I expect it to get all it's =
updates from a central house store, not directly from the manufacturer =
over the net. I see no reason my appliances need global access; just =
access to their local controller.
>=20
Again, we can agree to disagree. I want GUA even for the things that =
don't need global access because I can
change my mind later. There's no advantage to building that decision =
into the address, rather than making
it in the filter policy of the routers and/or firewalls on the network.
> And yes, I am working on building my IPv6 coffee maker. :P
>=20
Someone has to, I suppose.
Owen
