[94472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marshall Eubanks)
Tue Jan 23 18:27:59 2007
In-Reply-To: <38F71A7A-36B9-4CAB-957A-5FED566E7A1C@t1r.com>
Cc: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Marshall Eubanks <tme@multicasttech.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:26:57 -0500
To: Daniel Golding <dgolding@t1r.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Hello;
On Jan 22, 2007, at 6:52 PM, Daniel Golding wrote:
>
> One interesting point - they plan to use Broadband over Power Line
> (BPL) technology to do this. Meter monitoring is the killer app for
> BPL, which can then also be used for home broadband, Meter reading
> is one of the top costs and trickiest problems for utilities.
>
If they control the network, why is doing this with IPv6 out of the
question ?
It seems like a good fit to me.
Regards
Marshall
> - Dan
>
> On Jan 22, 2007, at 12:28 PM, Niels Bakker wrote:
>
>>
>> * 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.
>
