Re: Home network topology

[Rémi Denis-Courmont <rdenis@simphalempin.com>]

	Bob, Brian, Ralph, and all, hello,

Le Friday 14 March 2008 00:36:29 Bob Hinden, vous avez écrit :
> I think in five to ten years the future home network will end up
> looking like today's small enterprise.  This means there will be
> multiple subnets, different technologies, different administrative
> domains, and different speeds.   One big difference between the
> enterprise and home network won't be size, but will be that the home
> network will be auto-configured.  The enterprise will be managed, the
> home network will be unmanaged.  This will require enough address
> space to permit multiple subnets with room left for future growth.

What I am concerned about is, should this need for "subnetting" the unmanaged 
networks actually substantiate (and I agree it is not unlikely), what is the 
solution? Anything that requires a manual setting of some home appliances 
(beyond plugging cables) is probably dead on arrival by definition of 
an "unmanaged" network.

If there is no clear guidance on how home routers ought to handle this, I 
suspect vendors would have to resort to IPv6 NATting :(
That is why I was not very comfortable with the /64-per-home option of, e.g. 
the 6to4rd proposal.

If I am just being totally confused and it is obvious to everyone else what 
the solution is (RIPng? "recursive" DHCPv6-PD? ...?), then please accept my 
apologies.

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Rémi Denis-Courmont