IP: SONY IP assignments

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

>Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:58:12 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>
>To: dhc2@dcrocker.net
>
>Dave {Crocker},
>
>Hi.  I'm not so sure that they'll care too much about topology at that level
>(especially if they really plan to use IPv6).  I'll bet they intend that all
>such devices would be operating within the Sony "cloud" or would access the
>outside world only through their gateways.  A similar philosophy seems to
>have taken hold with cell phones.  My WAP-enabled phone came with a
>pre-assigned IP address, which wasn't simply set when the phone was
>activated (the IP address was actually part of the serial #/barcoded info
>on the side of the box, assigned apparently at the same time as the phone's
>permanent ESN).
>
>--Lauren--



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