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On Mar 6, 2012, at 11:00 AM, Jim Gettys <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/06/2012 01:49 PM, Dave Taht wrote: >> >> >> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 10:23 AM, james woodyatt <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> On Mar 6, 2012, at 07:15 , Michael Richardson <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> "Mark" == Mark Andrews <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> >> writes: >>> Mark> A significant percentage of home machines will roam and >> those >>> Mark> machines will need to be able to register their current >>> Mark> address in the DNS. I do this today when my Mac roams. >> TSIG >>> Mark> is unavoidable and cheap. UPDATE itself is relatively >> cheap. >>> >>> Are you asking for a link-local/mDNS-across-the-homenet >> leap-of-faith >>> way to do key establishment so that TSIG can be initialized? >> >> >> The alternative is to delegate all that business to 3rd parties >> with big data centers in the proverbial cloud. Yes, that means >> that you're relying on Internet service to be constantly available >> to resolve service locations on your local home network, but it >> does seem to work reasonably well today. >> >> >> In some parts of the world, maybe, like california. >> >> Elsewhere, say in Nicaragua... not so much. I would personally prefer >> that those designing this stuff with *any* dependencies on centralized >> services spend some time doing research in south america, Libya, >> africa, eastern europe, the australian outback, and places like that... >> >> > > Or Peru, or Uruguay, or Uganda, or.... (given my OLPC experience). > > I have to emphasise what Dave's saying here: requiring centralised > services to work at all is really a non-starter, not to mention what > happens when things break in the developed world. > > What's more, in those parts of the world, they can't afford either the > reliable connectivity or expensive kit in schools/houses and often use > off the shelf commodity home routers even in places we'd probably do > something much better. My point of view is to do it right in the home, > so everyone benefits at the low end. > - Jim > > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet > _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
