[94485] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants to be your Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Wed Jan 24 05:26:55 2007
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0701231143500.5903@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: Nanog Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 10:26:13 +0000
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 23 Jan 2007, at 16:48, Sean Donelan wrote:
> Why is IP required,
Because using something that works so well means less wheel reinvention.
> and even if you used IP for transport why must the meter
> identification be based on an IP address?
Idenification via IP address (exclusively) is bad. I'd argue that if
you are looking to check the meter for consumption data and for
problems, a store-and-forward message system which didn't depend on
always-on connectivity would preserve enough address space to make it
viable as well.
-a
