Re: trying to reconcile two threads

["John Stracke" <jstracke at incentivesystems.com>]

>It's quite feasible for 
>devices to initiate the communication instead.

Only if each device talks to only one external host (or a fixed set of 
hosts).  If I want to check my fridge from an arbitrary host, I'm out of 
luck, unless we introduce some kind of rendevous proxy.

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