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Re: Why IPv6 is a must?

2001-11-27 06:50:02

"John" == John Stracke <jstracke(_at_)incentivesystems(_dot_)com> writes:
    John> Think water meters.  Utility companies would love to be able to
    John> stop sending out expensive
    John> humans just to read one dial at each customer each month.  You *could*
    John> have a reverse proxy in your home NAT, but that gets harder to
    John> standardize; "does customer X have a compatible NAT?" is a harder 
question
    John> than "does customer X have an IPv6 network?".  Besides, if you've

  And, given shipworm, if the water meter sees no router advertisements, but
notices DHCP, it does that, and does either IPv6-over-UDP-through-NAT, or
just plain 6to4 if possible. You run IPsec over that with a manual keys that is
configured into the meter when it was installed.

  As you say - the water company does want security.

  Why would anyone pay for this? Well, not for water or electricity in these
parts, but in places where either is scarce, you need this to provide
variable water/electricity rates (In most places in Canada a "Hydro" bill is
for electricity, which speaks for the abundance of one leading to the
abundance of the other...)

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