certificate or any other type of identifying firmware software or electronic hardware for interacting with a media exchange network a legacy mp relies on a pc or a mps on the media exchange network to act as a proxy for the mp for the purposes of association authentication and routing on the media exchange network as defined herein a non legacy mp is a media exchange network ready peripheral device and includes a digital certificate or any other type of identifying firmware software or electronic hardware that may be read by or transferred to a pc a mps or a broadband access headend on a media exchange network a non legacy mp may be moved to different locations and still be recognized by the media exchange network when connected to the media exchange network at those different locations through a pc a mps or a broadband access headend other embodiments of the present invention may comprise various combinations and or multiple instantiations of the elements of fig1 in accordance with various aspects of the present invention in general a legacy device is registered on a media exchange network via a proxy platform such as a pc or a mps to register a serial id of the device is entered at the request of the proxy platform and the proxy platform sends the serial id to a server on the media exchange network e g a manufacturer 39 s server once the server validates the serial id a.