[143523] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 end user addressing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Aug 11 14:21:53 2011
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110811.194121.78787273.sthaug@nethelp.no>
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2011 11:18:26 -0700
To: sthaug@nethelp.no
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Aug 11, 2011, at 10:41 AM, sthaug@nethelp.no wrote:
>>> And your average home user, whose WiFi network is an open network =
named
>>> "linksys" is going to do that how?
>>=20
>> Because the routers that come on pantries and refrigerators will =
probably be
>> made by people smarter than the folks at Linksys?
>=20
> One could argue that routing and access control is even less of a core
> business feature for pantry and refrigerator manufacturers than it is
> for Linksys. So I wouldn't rule this out - but I'm definitely in the
> sceptical camp.
>=20
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
Let's face it... CPE security needs are going to be radically different =
and consumer
expectations are going to rise quickly in this area with IPv6.
I suspect both refrigerator/pantry makers _AND_ Linksys et. al. will be =
forced
to adapt.
Owen
