[94461] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brandon Galbraith)
Tue Jan 23 12:28:08 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:16:04 -0600
From: "Brandon Galbraith" <brandon.galbraith@gmail.com>
To: "Sean Donelan" <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@t1r.com>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0701231143500.5903@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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> Why is IP required, and even if you used IP for transport why must the
> meter identification be based on an IP address? If meters only report
> information, they don't need a unique transport address and could put
> the meter identifier in the application data.
>
> Even if the intent is to include additional controls, e.g. cycle air
> conditioners during peak periods, you still don't need to use IP or
> unique IP transport addresses.
>
> Just because you have the hammer called IP, doesn't mean you must use
> it on everything.
Exactly. A meter should be able to connect over an available transport
method, and be identifiable via a serial number, not an IP. It may need to
grab a DHCP address of some sort (or whatever the moniker is for the
transport available), but in the end it's unique serial number should be
used to identify itself.
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<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Why is IP required, and even if you used IP for transport why must the<br>meter identification be based on an IP address? If meters only report
<br>information, they don't need a unique transport address and could put<br>the meter identifier in the application data.<br><br>Even if the intent is to include additional controls, e.g. cycle air<br>conditioners during peak periods, you still don't need to use IP or
<br>unique IP transport addresses.<br><br>Just because you have the hammer called IP, doesn't mean you must use<br>it on everything.</blockquote><div><br>Exactly. A meter should be able to connect over an available transport method, and be identifiable via a serial number, not an IP. It may need to grab a DHCP address of some sort (or whatever the moniker is for the transport available), but in the end it's unique serial number should be used to identify itself.
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