[94465] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris L. Morrow)
Tue Jan 23 13:49:01 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:48:10 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Chris L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@verizonbusiness.com>
In-reply-to: <E1H92lr-0000nc-MY@mail.shankland.org>
To: Jim Shankland <nanog@shankland.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, 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.
globally unique addresses
I have an electic company, it's got 2500 partners, all with the same
'internal ip addressing plan' (192.168.1.0/24) we need to communicate, is
NAT on both sides really efficient?
