On May 17, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
On 05/17/2011 08:56 AM, Paul Vixie wrote:
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:07:17 +0200 From: Mans Nilsson<mansaxel@besserwisser.org>
... It's not like you can even reach anything at home now, let alone reach it by name. that must and will change. let's be the generation who makes it possible. I'd like to respond to this by stating that I support this fully, but I'm busy making sure I can reach my machines at home from the IPv6 Internet. By name. ;-) :-).
to be clear, the old pre-web T1 era internet did not have much content but what content there was, was not lopsided. other than slip and ppp there weren't a lot of networks one would call "access" and a smaller number of networks one would call "content". i am not wishing for that, i like the web, i like content, i know there will be specialized networks for access and content. but i also think (as jim gettys does) that we ought to be able to get useful work done without being able to reach the whole internet all the time. that's going to mean being able to reach other mostly-access networks in our same neighborhoods and multitenant buildings and towns and cities, directly, and by name. it does not mean being able to start facebook 2.0 out of somebody's basement, but it does mean being able to run a personal smtp or web server in one's basement and have it mostly work for the whole internet and work best for accessors who are close by and still work even when the "upstream" path for the neighborhood is down.
This is all very confusing to me. How are meaningful names going to assigned automatically?
dynamic dns updates seems like an obvious choice.
Right now I see something like ool-6038bdcc.static.optonline.net for one of our servers, how does this mean anything to anyone else?
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