It's quite feasible for
devices to initiate the communication instead.
Only if each device talks to only one external host (or a fixed set of
hosts). If I want to check my fridge from an arbitrary host, I'm out of
luck, unless we introduce some kind of rendevous proxy.
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|John Stracke |Principal Engineer |
|jstracke(_at_)incentivesystems(_dot_)com |Incentive Systems, Inc. |
|http://www.incentivesystems.com|My opinions are my own. |
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|Two words that inspire the same feeling of dread are synominous. |
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