Hi Mike, Thanks for the comments.
On 19 Oct 2012, at 18:16, Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/19/2012 09:36 AM, Tim Chown wrote: >> >> >> We can take comments towards a -06 over the weekend. The most substantial >> changes are in the Naming and Service Discovery section (3.7), so if you >> have limited time please focus your reading there. > > One thing that I'm not sure whether it's been discussed or not is service > announcement. > By service announcement, I mean where instead of multicasting out a message > looking > for the canonical printer with all of its nasty properties especially for > things with batteries > and lossy/slow networks, a device would instead announce its presence to > something > that would later serve it up (eg, bind9, say). I think this is covered in 3.7.4, certainly possible. > That is, if we can posit a dns repository in our home edge routers, we can > avoid some > of the insanity that ensues when you say that something MUST be strictly > zeroconf. > I think we are long past the days where strict zeroconf should be the driving > principle; > littleconf should be a valid option too. And I don't think this possibility is excluded at all by the current arch text either. It talks of an authoritative name service running on the CER, with a dynamic registration service (e.g. dyndns). I have added 'as far as possible' to the unmanaged text. > Service announcement could also feed into things like Search where instead of > having preset categories which make sense perhaps only to those who chose the > category at the factory, we could also have structured and/or free-form text > with > lots of keywords and other identifying information that an indexer might > find useful. That's probably straying a little into the UI side. Again, I don't think we preclude that. > Mechanistically, we already have things like IXFR for DNS, so it's not likely > that > this is wholesale invention, though it may well involve some tweaks. IXFR also > gives the possibility for enrollment and access control which is pretty > problematic > with service discovery. I think these issues may come up in the mdnsext BoF - I encourage you to join that list and give comment there. Tim _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
