On Jun 29, 2012, at 3:58 PM 6/29/12, james woodyatt wrote: > On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:27 , Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Maybe I can add some fuel to Olafur's fire. I'd like to say that the homenet >> name service MUST be DNS. > > Let's go further. Let's say that it must be DNS-Based Service Discovery > [I-D.cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd], which has been in the RFC Editor Queue for 199 > days at this point, so one imagines that it stands a decent chance of being a > published RFC by the time HOMENET finishes its first round of major work.
Well, DNS-Based Service Discovery addresses just one kind of requirement: listing entities that provide a certain kind of service; perhaps generalizable to resolution based on a characteristic or set of characteristics that might return more than one response to the resolution request. At some point, there needs to be a mechanism for resolving an identity to a single IP address. - Ralph > > > -- > james woodyatt <[email protected]> > member of technical staff, core os networking > > [*] <http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd/> > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
