In reply to John Spade.

Hi John, thanks for chiming in.

One of the things I was thinking about when plotting this post in my mind was that not everything will be publicly accessible. I have 20-30 things in my home that have their own IP addresses, and more things that have Bluetooth PAN addresses, but very little of it will be externally accessible.

I think a lot of devices will be either proxied, filtered, or otherwise obfuscated from the Public Internet(tm), or at least I hope so.

That's not to say that a "trusted broker" system (similar to how things like Transporter, Pogoplug, and even Cisco Meraki wireless-based VPN work) is the perfect solution. Everything breaks, trust isn't absolute, and some developers are lazy.

But I'm thinking that tiers of connectivity will be involved. Either that, or routers will get to the size of an ENIAC or LEO. :)