[asterisk-users] RE: OT (a little): IPV6 Ramifications Article

[Per Jessen]

Dean Collins wrote:

> What I'm really after are some discussions about how product design
> needs to change to accommodate our new IPV6 address space. How can R&D
> departments take advantage of the coming change and build new
> functionality to suit.

As in what can I do with my IPV6 enabled electric kettle?  Or microwave? 

> I know it's a very specific angle but I thin this topic is being
> ignored at the moment.

Actually, it sounds as if the angle is much too wide. To make it even
wider: - "how could my electrical/electronical device benefit from
having an Ethernet interface and an IP-address?"  

If there was something useful in ones kettle having an ethernet
connection, it would probably already have it.  After all, with NAT'ing
there's no real shortage of IP-addresses.  And perhaps we would already
have K2K networks, with K2K proxies etc. 

Jokes aside - I could see benefits in my car having a wifi and/or GPRS
receiver builtin.  Automagic refresh of navigational data, MP3 music,
automatic communication with the garage etc.  It already does a lot of
this over the phone and various radio-based networks, but this could be
simplified tremendously.  The IP-number would be handed out and
possibly also follow the license plate. 


/Per Jessen, Zürich