On Jul 10, 2012, at 10:01 , Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > ...Though it's a little unfriendly to type in a FQDN for a > ULA-like-statistically-unique name, right?
Hummm, or maybe we should think about whether typing characters on keyboards is *ever* a good human interface for the most common home networking scenarios. What if we designed a name service that, rather than expecting humans to have a keyboard with which to type out wackily encoded FQDNs--character by character, and hoping they spell the name right with all the fiddly punctuation and everything--we instead designed one that naturally facilitates a human interface built around presenting the human with ordered, readable, collections of names, which allows them to choose the ones corresponding to the services they want to use? What if we went further and designed it with a meta-service discovery feature, so you could use it to discover the domains in which services may be discovered? Would that help? What if IETF already had such a name service in hand, i.e. I-D.cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd, which is already designed, deployed and proven to work well in home networking scenarios? (Yes, it has the meta-service discovery feature too, c.f. section 11, Discovery of Browsing and Registration Domains.) Would *that* help? -- james woodyatt <[email protected]> member of technical staff, core os networking _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
