On 19/10/2012 18:16, Michael Thomas 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).
e.g. an SLP Directory Agent, designed for this purpose some years ago. [RFC2608], [RFC2610], [RFC3059], [RFC3224], [RFC3421], and [RFC3832] This is not exactly a new problem. Brian > > 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. > > 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. > > 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. > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > homenet mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet > _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
