On 13 Mar 2013, at 22:14, Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mar 13, 2013, at 5:48 PM, Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>> This just doesn't make any sense to me. mDNS is typically used to do an
>> A/AAAA lookup. And mDNS isn't global, so it wouldn't do me much good if
>> I were in Brazil. So I don't think this is a solution at all, and it 
>> definitely
>> doesn't seem to have anything to do with mDNS. To my mind, what would
>> be useful is for the device to populate a repository (zeroconf or not) via
>> an existing or tweaked DNS protocols (ixfr?).
> 
> Stuart Cheshire has a draft describing how to populate a DNS zone using mDNS. 
>   It's not a bad idea, although I don't think the architecture document 
> should mention it—there is at least one other alternative, and by mentioning 
> solely mDNS we are making a decision that I don't think has general agreement.

Agreed - so the word "zeroconf" could be removed from before the word "device", 
which then leaves that open.

Tim
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