> Myself and others are deeply concerned by how this effort is developing. > There is no current consensus on what the communications architecture of the > SmartGrid is or how IP actually fits into it. > > The Utility Industry does not understand the current IPv4 number exhaust > problem and the consequences of that if they want to put a IP address on > every Utility Meter in North America. > > What is equally troubling is that many of the underlying protocols that > utilities wish to deploy are not engineered for IPv6. We have an example of > that in a recent ID. I've asked the ARIN Public Policy mailing list how people would feel about banning the Electric Utility industry (and sub contractors) from receiving any IPv4 addresses for use on the Smart Grid. This would include direct ARIN allocations and assignment from ISPs. I think that you are right to raise this issue in discussion since we badly need to shine a light on the details of transitioning the Internet to IPv6. --Michael Dillon _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf