* Keith Medcalf:
On: Saturday, 22 October, 2016 17:41, Jean-Francois Mezei <jfmezei_nanog@vaxination.ca> wrote:
On 2016-10-22 19:03, Keith Medcalf wrote:
This does not follow and is not a natural consequence of sealing the little buggers up so that they cannot affect the Internet
Problem is that many of these gadgets want to be internet connected so mother at work can check on her kids at home, start the cooking, raise thermostat etc.
This does not require that the devices be open to the Internet, nor does it require that they are under the control of an Internet based controller.
How would you know? It is perfectly reasonable to send a notification to a device by making a TCP connection to it. This is the way the Internet was built. You are not expected to sign a contract with the network operator for the target device before you can establish a connection to the device. The possibility of denial-of-service attacks is not a sufficient reason to change that model.