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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Google wants to be your Internet
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Jim Shankland wrote: > > "Travis H." <[email protected]> writes: > > > IIRC, someone representing the electrical companies approached > > someone representing network providers, possibly the IETF, to > > ask about the feasibility of using IP to monitor the electrical > > meters throughout the US.... > > > > The response was "yeah, well, maybe with IPv6". > > Which is nonsense. More gently, it's only true if you not only > want to use IP to monitor electrical meters, but want the use > the (global) Internet to monitor electrical meters. > > I'd love to hear the business case for why my home electrical meter > needs to be directly IP-addressable from an Internet cafe in Lagos. globally unique addresses I have an electic company, it's got 2500 partners, all with the same 'internal ip addressing plan' (192.168.1.0/24) we need to communicate, is NAT on both sides really efficient?
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