[TriLUG] Adding to the list of topics: IPv6

[Magnus]

On Wednesday, January 21, 2004, at 11:38  PM, Jon Carnes wrote:

> Your Refrigerator will come with a bar code reader and will connect up
> to your favorite grocery chain (Lowes Food).

Not likely.  By the time this hits, RFID tags will be ubiquitous.  And 
it won't just be contacting your favorite food chain.

>  When you run out of milk,
> you'll push the request button and then scan the old milk carton in
> (before tossing it in the recycle bin).

Nah.  Your trash can will also have an RFID scanner.  If something is 
pulled from the fridge and dumped into the trashcan, the order is 
automatically placed.

> Your camera has a nice built in buffer and it can store up to a 100
> large shots, and when it gets a nice signal for internet access it logs
> in remotely to your PC and dumps those shots in the buffer out to your
> harddrive.

As if cameras don't go through batteries fast enough, we gotta give 
them an 802.11* adapter to hurry things along more.

I don't really see this one coming as storage is pretty cheap, cheaper 
than network-enabling cameras.  I have yet to see the other end of my 
128M memory card in my 2MP camera.   3MP and 4MP cameras are more 
common now, but then so are 256M memory cards or 1G-4G miniature hard 
disks.

> You never load film, and you don't mess with wire hook-ups
> to your home-based PC or your walk-about tablet.

This doesn't require an IP address.  It just requires proximity and 
bluetooth.

> The photo frame on your desk logs into your PC remotely and draws from
> the new pictures and displays them one at a time for ten seconds each.

This one irks me.  The technology is here now for digital picture 
frames, and they should be ~$100 at this point.  I went shopping before 
Christmas hoping to get a couple of these for my wife.  I could only 
find one, and don't you know it the thing needs a modem connection and 
you have to pay a third party service to manage your pictures for you.  
Everyone is always after that recurring monthly payment to keep up a 
revenue stream.  Me?  I just want a picture frame that I can directly 
transfer pictures to or stick a memory card in that has a couple dozen 
pictures on it.

> None of these things is from the future. They exist now, but they need
> the infrastructure and security that comes with IPv6 in order to
> function properly.

Bluetooth can already do a lot of this without an IP address needed.  
Then again it hasn't exactly exploded onto the industry like everyone 
predicted.  And still, IPv4 can handle this just fine if the protocols 
being used are secure.

--

C. Magnus Hedemark
http://trilug.org/~chrish
"The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink 
what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." - Mark Twain
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