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Nat

We can't get people to use passwords judiciously (create them at all for WiFi, change them, use more than one, etc.) and now you want them to manage networks? 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 
http://www.ics-il.com 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Randy Fischer" <randy.fischer at gmail.com> 
To: "Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net> 
Cc: "North American Network Operators Group" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Sunday, December 20, 2015 9:34:16 PM 
Subject: Re: Nat 





On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Mike Hammett < nanog at ics-il.net > wrote: 


Most people couldn't care less and just want the Internet on their device to work. 




Well, if the best practice for CPE routers included as a matter of course the subnets "connected to internet", "local only (e.g. IoT)" and "guest network", and if they just worked, then they wouldn't mind that either. 


A friend of mine used to refer to this as 'refrigerator consciousness" - he was a gearhead, so it was a pejorative. Instead, I think of it as a design goal. 


-Randy Fischer