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Re: IPv6 end user addressing

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Thu Aug 11 00:41:40 2011

From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGVD+5kpbTr2ET-Zq637AZi6UrsEpA3LomXn44j-QN5+Uw@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 20:40:22 -0700
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:43 PM, William Herrin wrote:

> I mean really, why
> wouldn't the life safety system in a car dynamically acquire its
> globally-addressable IPv6 addresses from the customer's cheap home
> Internet equipment? So they'll each need their /64's which means the
> car as a whole needs a /62. But the HAN only needed a /60 for for all
> of it since there were only 3 cars.

several cars on the road today have cellular radios on more than one =
network ( the nissan leaf for example)

When you account for integration into the driver and passengers personal =
area networks (pans) as for example ford sync does today, and =
integration into home automation networks, (garage doors, lighting, =
media syncronization) and in the case of electric cars, the smart grid) =
why wouldn't a car, acquire addresses and be discoverable on the users =
home network? By the time this is fully realized, the car will be on =
quite a few networks, instead of just the two or three it's presently =
either supporting or attached to...





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