[94441] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nicholas Suan)
Mon Jan 22 12:58:19 2007
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From: Nicholas Suan <nsuan@nonexiste.net>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:44:47 -0500
To: nanog@merit.edu
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On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:15 PM, Jim Shankland wrote:
>
> "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.
>
Perhaps your electrical company has more than 16.7 million electrical
meters it needs to address.
