Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

Fri Jul 30 11:51:36 UTC 2010

On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:11:04 BST, Matthew Walster said:
> Seriously, this is getting silly. I'm not even going to respond any
> more - if you genuinely think users care about network management,
> you're wrong. They treat it as a black box, and that isn't going to
> change for a long, long, long time.

The point you're missing is that users may not care about network management
*directly* - but they may care very much about the *features* that the
network-ready appliance they bought at Best Buy provides them using multiple
subnets under the hood. If the box says "provides separate 'Guest' wireless
access", that can be a selling point even if the user doesn't know it happens
because the unit uses separate subnets for the "home" and "guest" addresses.

End users are already used to a world where they plug in some hardware, run a
program off the CD, have it ask a few questions about how you want to use the
device, click the 'Do It!' button, and it all works. If networking is any
different experience *for the end user*, we've as an industry screwed up big
time.

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