On 25 June 2014 18:23, Martin Rex <mrex(_at_)sap(_dot_)com> wrote:
The majority of home users actually do not want and do not need to
run any service in the first place.
You're surely joking?
Let's assume that by "service" you actually meant "service accessible to
anywhere on the internet", because it's just silly to assume you might have
meant internal services.
There's a fairly large number of devices sold with the explicit feature
that they have a [horrendously complex] mechanism by which they're
reachable from the outside world.
The Western Digital NAS I have sitting on a bookshelf in my office is one
such, as is the HP printer behind me. There are various digital TV set-top
boxes that are able to be programmed to record from outside the consumer's
network, too.
These aren't obscure undocumented features; these are headline USPs.
They're not *public* services, of course, but they're certainly services in
every meaningful technical sense, and they're all reliant on weird hacks,
proxy services, and so on. IPv6 instantly makes these simpler for
developers and users.
Dave.