IPv6 end user addressing

Fri Aug 12 16:15:11 UTC 2011

On 8/11/2011 1:34 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> On Aug 11, 2011, at 5:41 AM, Jamie Bowden wrote:
>
>> Owen wrote:
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Owen DeLong [mailto:owen at delong.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 9:58 PM
>>> To: William Herrin
>>> Cc: nanog at nanog.org
>>> Subject: Re: IPv6 end user addressing
>>>
>>>
>>> On Aug 10, 2011, at 6:46 PM, William Herrin wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Owen DeLong<owen at delong.com>
>> wrote:
>>>>>> Someday, I expect the pantry to have a barcode reader on it
>>> connected back
>>>>>> a computer setup for the kitchen someday.  Most of us already use
>>> barcode
>>>>>> readers when we shop so its not a big step to home use.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nah... That's short-term thinking. The future holds advanced
>>> pantries with
>>>>> RFID sensors that know what is in the pantry and when they were
>>> manufactured,
>>>>> what their expiration date is, etc.
>>>>
>>>> And since your can of creamed corn is globally addressable, the rest
>>>> of the world knows what's in your pantry too. ;)
>>>>
>>>
>>> This definitely helps explain your misconceptions about NAT as a
>>> security tool.
>>>
>>>
>>> Globally addressable != globally reachable.
>>>
>>> Things can have global addresses without having global reachability.
>>> There are
>>> these tools called access control lists and routing policies. Perhaps
>>> you've heard
>>> of them. They can be quite useful.
>>
>> And your average home user, whose WiFi network is an open network named
>> "linksys" is going to do that how?
>>
>
> Because the routers that come on pantries and refrigerators will probably be
> made by people smarter than the folks at Linksys?
>

But they'll still be operated by end users that are so smart, that when 
they get e-mail from "service at usps.gov" that says that FedEx couldn't 
deliver a package (that they're not expecting) to them they click on the 
password protected "UPS tracking.zip" file and manage to run the .exe 
file that is supposed to allow them to get the package delivered.

-- 
Dave