> Lisa's working on an assignment we're tentatively calling > "The welcome death of the VPN,"
There's one thing here, that I didn't see anybody mention ... DirectAccess is based on IPv6, and although IPv6 has been in production usage for years on backbones, it is *far* from universally available to endpoints, such as laptops. In order for it to become universally available, adoption has to "trickle down" from professional administrators of backbones, all the way through ISP's, security appliance vendors (if you could call Linksys or dlink by that name) and product lifecycle turnover those devices at the final hop (the internet café, the hotel chain, a random person's cablemodem household, etc). Because there's one thing I know for sure - You're definitely not going to get universal adoption of IPv6 via understanding of the common household user, or internet café network administrator / cashier / coffee retail sales person. They usually have knowledge limited to "if it doesn't work, power cycle it, and if it still doesn't work, call the 800 number written on the card next to it." Which means the only path to universal adoption is to have it seamlessly and brainlessly built into the device. No assembly required. As long as it's not universally available, it can't be called "death of the VPN." The IPv4 VPN will still be required on everybody's corporate laptops. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
