Yes, well, mostly: I’d expect you’d have to add new things to your network with some level of confirmation once–if anything, proper auth should be baked in. Bu

Yes, well, mostly: I’d expect you’d have to add new things to your network with some level of confirmation once–if anything, proper auth should be baked in. But after that, wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t have separate devices anymore, but a single digital identity across all of them, with an interface to control unique capabilities of each of them? For a banal example - there’s no reason we shouldn’t be able to set a timer on our phone, and check it on a computer, or kitchen counter display. On the other hand, I can’t check on the progress of my vacuum robot from my laptop, because the vendor only offers a mobile app. I can’t pull the stats from my car at all, I can’t check a hard drive without plugging it into something compatible, I can’t easily send a big file to someone nearby. Technology should allow us to do all that. Devices should promote their capabilities and offer a standard interface to control them, and simultaneously be able to display controls for the interface of other devices, depending on available means of input. Done well, this can actually be zero config.