On May 17, 2011, at 8:49 AM, Steve Clark wrote: > On 05/17/2011 08:56 AM, Paul Vixie wrote: >>> Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 11:07:17 +0200 >>> From: Mans Nilsson<mansa...@besserwisser.org> >>> >>>>> ... It's not like you can even reach anything at home now, let alone >>>>> reach it by name. >>>> that must and will change. let's be the generation who makes it possible. >>> I'd like to respond to this by stating that I support this fully, but >>> I'm busy making sure I can reach my machines at home from the IPv6 >>> Internet. By name. ;-) >> :-). >> >> to be clear, the old pre-web T1 era internet did not have much content >> but what content there was, was not lopsided. other than slip and ppp >> there weren't a lot of networks one would call "access" and a smaller >> number of networks one would call "content". i am not wishing for that, >> i like the web, i like content, i know there will be specialized networks >> for access and content. but i also think (as jim gettys does) that we >> ought to be able to get useful work done without being able to reach the >> whole internet all the time. that's going to mean being able to reach >> other mostly-access networks in our same neighborhoods and multitenant >> buildings and towns and cities, directly, and by name. it does not mean >> being able to start facebook 2.0 out of somebody's basement, but it does >> mean being able to run a personal smtp or web server in one's basement >> and have it mostly work for the whole internet and work best for accessors >> who are close by and still work even when the "upstream" path for the >> neighborhood is down. >> > This is all very confusing to me. How are meaningful names going to assigned > automatically?
dynamic dns updates seems like an obvious choice. > Right now I see something like ool-6038bdcc.static.optonline.net for one of > our servers, how does this > mean anything to anyone else? > > > -- > Stephen Clark > *NetWolves* > Sr. Software Engineer III > Phone: 813-579-3200 > Fax: 813-882-0209 > Email: steve.cl...@netwolves.com > http://www.netwolves.com >