On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 15:33:12 -0800
John Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Erik> The design center for IPv4 LLA is a household with a PC and a printer
> Erik> and no Internet connection, as well as two PCs in the same seat row
> Erik> on the airplane wired together with an Ethernet cable.
>
> Yes, or more generally any two machines that want to talk to each other
> without any Network for doing so beyond a direct link. And, as we just
> discussed in your office, since the Network is getting to be everywhere
> these days (even on airplanes), such circumstances are getting rarer. Thus
> the question is whether they are still sufficiently common to be worth the
> trouble of adding this feature, or if this solution is some years too late
> for its intended purpose. My sense is that it is still worthwhile, but I
> don't have enough data to prove it. Does anyone else have data or even a
> sense of whether Erik's thesis or mine is more accurate?
Given my most west coast US "even the local motel six has free
wireless" experiences I think we are too late.
The issue here seems to be less "how do I get connectivity" but more
"how do I pick among the connectivity options I'm offered".
Michael "the wifi connecivity in my local poker room
is better then the cell service" Hunter
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