It will certainly get their attention ... :-) > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Dillon [mailto:wavetossed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 5:54 PM > To: Richard Shockey > Cc: ietf@xxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: The IETF and the SmartGrid > > > 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