[AusNOG] "NBN Co to reserve data port for government"

[Sam Silvester]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org> wrote:

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> On Jul 17, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Brad Gould <bradley at internode.com.au> wrote:
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> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/350209,nbn-co-to-reserve-data-port-for-government.aspx
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> Hmm. So everyone is going to run two LANs in their house, one for
> themselves and
> one for government services?
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What I don't understand is how this would work when multiple Government
agencies want to use the single port - from what I've seen in the past it'd
be unlikely that there would be enough coordination between agencies to
share in a way that made this straightforward (and hence not need elaborate
/ complex / fragile / buggy CPE in order to do this). Multiplexing services
from multiple Government agencies (many who love RFC1918 address space just
a little bit too much) strikes me as being much harder to implement than
perhaps it seems on the surface.

As Mark Smith mentioned - doing this with CommunityNet was a fairly basic
similar concept and that was beyond most end users and many CPE. Seems a
lot less effort to just put it on the public 'net.

Seems to work ok for the most part *goes to check the weather on the BoM
website*

Sam
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