[e2e] Mystery

[David P. Reed]

It's truly a mystery how Sony can assign IP addresses without getting them 
from ARIN ...  anyone got an explanation?

I've been arguing that every consumer product should be able to get its 
very own stable IP address for free, for years.  But that requires a bit of 
a change to routing in the real world, as well as an address space the size 
of v6's which the article suggests as part of the answer....

So HOORAY.  Now we only have to get the IETF, Cisco, and Microsoft, among 
others, to do their part.

- David

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>>[NAB2001] SONY TO ASSIGN IP ADDRESSES TO ALL PRODUCTS
>>Sony Corp. said that every product it manufactures for business or home use
>>will have an assigned IP address.
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