[143508] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jamie Bowden)
Thu Aug 11 08:43:43 2011
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:41:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: <EA05495F-4269-4487-9B67-77535ED7E0EC@delong.com>
From: "Jamie Bowden" <jamie@photon.com>
To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>, "William Herrin" <bill@herrin.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Owen wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen@delong.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:58 PM
> To: William Herrin
> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
> Subject: Re: IPv6 end user addressing
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> On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:46 PM, William Herrin wrote:
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> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
wrote:
> >>> Someday, I expect the pantry to have a barcode reader on it
> connected back
> >>> a computer setup for the kitchen someday. Most of us already use
> barcode
> >>> readers when we shop so its not a big step to home use.
> >>
> >> Nah... That's short-term thinking. The future holds advanced
> pantries with
> >> RFID sensors that know what is in the pantry and when they were
> manufactured,
> >> what their expiration date is, etc.
> >
> > And since your can of creamed corn is globally addressable, the rest
> > of the world knows what's in your pantry too. ;)
> >
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> This definitely helps explain your misconceptions about NAT as a
> security tool.
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> Globally addressable !=3D globally reachable.
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> Things can have global addresses without having global reachability.
> There are
> these tools called access control lists and routing policies. Perhaps
> you've heard
> of them. They can be quite useful.
And your average home user, whose WiFi network is an open network named
"linksys" is going to do that how?
Jamie
