[Sussex] GPRS (and bluetooth)

[Dominic]

Geoff,

What you want is reasonable.  Apart from possibly giving a static IPv6
address to every device on the face of the planet, when many could manage
with a dynamic and a decent overhaul of DNS...

As for bluetooth.  I can see that interconnection is cool.  Apart from the
DVD remotes, It might be useful to be able to point my PDA at the fridge and
get a shopping list fired staight at it.  The washing machine could zap my
mobile phone with a list of helpdesk/insurance numbers associated with it so
I wouldn't meed to look them up.

Etc., etc., etc.

The future sounds cool to me!!!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geoff Teale" <Geoff.Teale at claybrook.co.uk>
To: <sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 3:52 PM
Subject: RE: [Sussex] GPRS (and bluetooth)


>
> Dominic wrote:
> --------------
> <snip>
> > Unless there is a good reason for going bluetooth (hifi/dvd
> > remotes ???), I
> > wonder about it's usefulness
> >
> > Thoughts?
>
>
> My first thought is, why am I getting deja vu here?
>
> My second more productive thought is this - Bluetooth is useful for
> localised interconnection of devices - in this respect is is actually a
> nicer idea than a wireless LAN.
>
> My third though is on wireless LAN's.  Are they really a way forwards?
> They're very nice and all, and I'm sure they represent a revenue stream
for
> several people on this list - but with limited range they are just a nice
> kind of cable - a less irritating option...  I think we're too tied into
the
> concepts of LAN's and being locked to a physical location.  Why should my
> access to the work servers be different if I'm at my desk or in Aberdeen?
>
> We need nationwide broadband coverage for mobile devices via the mobile
> phone network (you can keep phones with video feeds - they are useless
toys
> - I want a laptop that has an always on internet contention from just
about
> anywhere.
>
> We need to implement IPv6, give every device a unique IP (at least one) an
d
> implement private access through VPN's.
>
> I want the internet to be pervasive to everything electronic - but I want
it
> to be secure ("secure" here means "as secure as reasonably possible").
>
> Do I want too much? Probably.. but we'll get there one day, and that is a
> more exciting prospect.
>
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