[e2e] Mystery

[bill manning]

At 09:08 PM 4/28/2001 -0400, David P. Reed wrote:
>It's truly a mystery how Sony can assign IP addresses without getting them 
>from ARIN ...  anyone got an explanation?

	Sony is not in the ARIN service region?
	I understand that they are talking about IPv6 and have been talking w/		
	APNIC.


>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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