Agreed. -- David Harrington Director, Transport Area Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) [email protected] +1-603-828-1401
On 3/15/12 1:26 PM, "Paul Duffy" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On 3/10/2012 1:58 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > > > Re: [homenet] Discovery [snmp for monitoring home network] > > On 2012-03-10 08:42, Paul Duffy wrote: > > On 3/9/2012 1:55 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >> On 2012-03-10 05:00, Jim Gettys wrote: > >> ... > >>> I was just observing comments I came across in > code being used for > >>> printer discovery. > >> Why would we consider anything other than SLP for > service discovery? > > > > Its my understanding that mDNS/DNS-SD and UPnP SDDP have > far more > > traction in the consumer space than SLP. > > > > Please do correct if I'm wrong. > > Aren't we trying to influence the future rather than document > the > past? > > > > > Agreed. The initial discussion re: service discovery should be > requirements driven. > > I'll admit guilt re: starting to jump to a pre-mature conclusion. > Partly driven by issue fatigue. I've been involved with this same > requirements based discussion re: zero touch service discovery now > within several venues, over many years. Its largely the same cast > of characters. SLP vs DNS-SD vs uPnP SDDP. > > At some point, there needs to be a practical incorporation of which > way the wind is blowing, unless there are compelling reasons to do > otherwise. > > > > > We need a name-based service discovery solution. That's also a > requirement emerging from 6renum. I think we should decide > what's > the best recommendation; it may end up being DNS-based, but > this > is what SLP was designed for, so IMHO it should be considered. > > This is clearly *not* what SNMP was designed for. > > > > > Totally agree. Particularly in light of the fact that IETF has > acknowledged SNMP is typically used only for poll based status > monitoring. > > > > > Brian > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
