IETF Mulls Working Group For IPv6 Home Networking

alphadogg writes "The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering establishing a working group to smooth some of the impending issues around setting up and maintaining IPv6-based Internet connections in homes. 'A collection of protocols needs to be agreed upon, so vendors of equipment used in home networks will have an interoperable suite of protocols available,' said Ralph Droms, a distinguished engineer for Cisco and among those who want to form the IETF working group. Home networking is a fairly new area for the IETF. Many of its standards were designed for large-scale organizational networks, rather than home use."

Not necessarily "failed".

[khasim]

Whereas the addressing always implied "one ipv6 for each of your devices"(almost like rfid for bluetooth devices, on the internet, all the time), they didn't figure out the firewalling ?

IPv6 has a section for private use.

FD00::/8

So the home router manufacturers could have the exact same configs as today (with IPv4) with IPv6. With all the same benefits and problems that we have today. And that people are familiar with. And familiarity is the important thing here.

Beyond that, it's just a matter of phrasing. The techs designing the home routers/firewalls know what the technology can do. The issue is phrasing that in a way that the home user can make an informed choice on what options they want to enable for which of their machines (connecting to which machines on the Internet).