Because mankind is probably going to become an interplanetary civilization during this century:
Would a spaceship using quantum teleportation hardware that provides IPv6 connectivity between its tripulation and earth, considered as a part of the internet of the things?
Let's say it shares to the public some information using web services, like for example its telemetry.
Before this question is closed, I would like to invite anyone interested in the topic to read up on Delay-tolerant networking.
Until quantum entanglement arrives and is stable, we can be grateful that DARPA, NASA, et al, have already considered this and developed a proposal for the Interplanetary Internet (IPN).
Follow the links from there and you will learn all that you could wish to know.
Basically, whereas TCP/IP will drop undeliverable packets, a Delay/Disruption Tolerant Network will store and forward. Thus, if your not quantumly entangled spaceship slips behind Jupiter and cannot see the earth, it will wait until it has orbited, then perhaps send the data packet to a relay orbiting Mars, which might, in turn, have to store until it can see the Earth, then ultimately forward the packet.
There are already many existing projects using DTN, beginning with the famous zebranet (Google for zebranet wildlife tracking).
I have developed a few such projects myself, but an not allowed to discuss them.
I am sure that a little imagination and a handful of Raspberry Pi Zero Ws would allow you develop an interesting project for your own
The definition of IoT, as per ITU, as documented in ITU-T Y.2060:
IoT can be viewed as a global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies (ICT).
This definition seems to emphasize existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies. Quantum teleportation seems very nascent at this time to come under a standards body purview to qualify for any deployment IoT applications.
@SeanHoulihane has it right, the thing of belonging to IoT or not is not automatically so that some network structure or part of it is IoT.
Word 'Internet' in IoT, yes, it refers to some communication in Internet but actually the purpose of communication, having the word 'Things' is more important.
Quantums may form some combo that works machine to machine, but as I understand your question you refer to human-to-machine connection more than that of reading some sensors from other side of space. That makes the difference: if machines read data by themselves, react themselves to it and people afterwards can read the results we speak of IoT.
Otherwise it is Internet and IP protocol over quantum teleport, which is a new wave in the traditional Internet.
