On Feb 1, 2011, at 3:25 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 2/1/2011 5:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> I guess we can agree to disagree about this. I haven't seen one yet. > > If my coffee maker did have an IP address, I expect it to get all it's > updates from a central house store, not directly from the manufacturer over > the net. I see no reason my appliances need global access; just access to > their local controller. > Again, we can agree to disagree. I want GUA even for the things that don't need global access because I can change my mind later. There's no advantage to building that decision into the address, rather than making it in the filter policy of the routers and/or firewalls on the network.
> And yes, I am working on building my IPv6 coffee maker. :P > Someone has to, I suppose. Owen
