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Re: [v6ops] Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-smith-v6ops-local-only-addressing-00.txt)

Simon Hobson <linux@thehobsons.co.uk> Wed, 16 October 2019 20:36 UTC

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Subject: Re: [v6ops] Default IPv6 Local Only Addressing for Non-Internet Devices (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-smith-v6ops-local-only-addressing-00.txt)
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Gert Doering <gert@space.net> wrote:
> 

> I'd say that most devices built by manufacturers today SHOULD be
> isolated from the Internet...  but I'm afraid that *manufacturers*
> are never going to agree that their shiny new toys are not mature
> enough...

Not only that, but these days everything is "internet connected" regardless of whether that actually adds anything useful*. I can't see many (if any) manufacturers defaulting to *not* internet connected.

* Eg, a made up example of a light "switch" and associated "smart" lights that don't work without taking to a controller "somewhere out in the internet" just so the user can control their lights from anywhere.

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