[arin-ppml] Why are ISPs allowed?

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at ipinc.net> wrote:

> The big concern really is if television manufacturers ever pull
> their heads out of their butts and start including the ability to
> plug an Ethernet cable into your 42" Plasma and stream television
> shows off nbc.com and suchlike.  But so far the only acknowledgement
> that they seem to have made that television can come into the TV 
> from
> a source other than a cable line or an antenna is to stick a VGA 
> port
> on the TV.  And more and more flatscreens are lacking even that now.

Not so.

Check: http://www.dlna.org/about_us/roadmap/

Oh - and you can see that IPv6 is featured here as being an enabling 
technology.
:->

O.