----- Original Message ----- From: "Anne Thomas Manes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 22, 2002 18:55 Subject: RE: UPNP
> I haven't heard anything about UPNP for about a year. The only device that I > ever heard of that was UPNP certified was the Intel AnyPoint Networking > Gateway (http://www.samsungelectronics.com/homenetwork/news/news_005.html). > > UPNP definitely predates WSDL. There is that UPNP stuff in winxp, which means that MS secretly have a fifth SOAP stack to go with the two .net implementations, MSSTK and ATL server. But I havent seen any UPNP devices. I could find out what is going on in the printer area, but then I wouldnt be able to talk about it. From what I recall, there were issues with UPnPs chattiness counting against its usability in the office (there were no aggregation of discovery mcasts via discovery servers, a la SLPv2), leaving the home. But in the home LAN hosted printers are a rarity, USB to the home PC is the centre of attention. So I'll ignore Upnp. Its a shame, because if it was real WSDL/SOAP with the discovery mechanism decoupled from the interaction, a UPNP printer would just be a printer service on the lan that you could find through discovery, UDDI (!), hardcoding, etc, and talk direct to it from your app if you so chose. -steve
