On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Erik Nordmark wrote: > > The user knows that all of his communication attempts fail. That's a > > good signal that there's something wrong. If the user knows nothing > > more of this, he calls helpdesk or some support, which may be able to > > identify the problem and eliminate it. > > Which help desk should my grandmother call when this happens? > The ISP? The vendor for her Tivo-like box? The OS vendor for the laptop?
The same helpdesk she calls when she encounters a weird problem in her network connectivity, or in her PC. Most likely you ;-) (This is a much more generic problem, not one specific to this scenario, obviously.) > Given that we don't even know what such boxes will look like in 10+ years, > how can we determine that people would not "plug" them together? > Perhaps this ability to connect multiple wired and wireless media > will be to cheap that every laptop, TV and stereo will include it. > (Many things that don't run on batteries might have such functionality > for all I can predict.) You are making assumption that those boxes would also be acting as routers (in the ND-proxy mode) by default, right? I don't, and I don't think doing that would make a lot of sense. -- Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds." Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Administrative Requests: https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
