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At 1:02 PM -0500 2005-07-07, Kuhtz, Christian wrote: The problem is that you don't know, a priori, which devices will or will not need to be fully externally addressable. Even if we talk about just mobile phones, it's easy to imagine billions of devices world-wide that will need connectivity in the near future.It doesn't scale. Regardless of Moore's law, there are some fundamental physical limits that constrain technology.I would contend that is not true. What says that every device inside a company, family, enterprise etc has to be available and reachable by anyone on the planet in a bidirectional fashion as far as session initiation is concerned? Most devices won't need full bidirectional connectivity all the time, no. But it's also easy to imagine circumstances where you decide that you need to change the setting on the VCR or check the stove to see if you forgot and left it turned on. If you can give all the devices in your home full bidirectional connectivity (via a secure method, of course), then a whole lot of options open up that would otherwise not have been possible. -- Brad Knowles, <[email protected]> "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755 SAGE member since 1995. See <http://www.sage.org/> for more info.
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