[94438] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Mon Jan 22 12:29:34 2007
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:28:05 +0100
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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* nanog@shankland.org (Jim Shankland) [Mon 22 Jan 2007, 18:21 CET]:
>"Travis H." <travis+ml-nanog@subspacefield.org> writes:
>>IIRC, someone representing the electrical companies approached
>>someone representing network providers, possibly the IETF, to
>>ask about the feasibility of using IP to monitor the electrical
>>meters throughout the US....
>>
>>The response was "yeah, well, maybe with IPv6".
>
>Which is nonsense. More gently, it's only true if you not only
>want to use IP to monitor electrical meters, but want the use
>the (global) Internet to monitor electrical meters.
>
>I'd love to hear the business case for why my home electrical meter
>needs to be directly IP-addressable from an Internet cafe in Lagos.
It's not nonsense. Those elements need to be unique. RFC1918 isn't
unique enough (think what happens during a corporate merger).
-- Niels.
