On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Michael Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 03/14/2013 01:23 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>
>> On 13/03/2013 23:47, Michael Thomas wrote:
>>
>>  What I find most telling is that after 25 years, printers are still the
>>> canonical
>>> example of the "need" for SD. But printers have entire programs/wizards
>>>  that
>>> support their existence, so they're really lousy as a canonical example.
>>> It would
>>> be nice for things to attach themselves to my net and not require their
>>> awful apps
>>> to be installed.
>>>
>> Exactly. That's why the architecture needs SD, in a nutshell.
>>
>>
> I'm not terribly convinced that SD is even the whole story which is why
> I have such a hard time with the short shrift the architecture document
> gives it.
>
> After my trip down to Widgetmart I dump open a bag of ip widgets,
> would they self organize? Should they self-organize? Everybody here
> keeps talking about zeroconf, after all. If not, what is expected of me
> (the end user) in their use and/or assembly? What problems are we
> trying to solve in my home? Is SD as its currently implemented by
> Apple *exactly* what we want in the long  term? How do we even know
> how to answer that question if the  problem/requirements aren't even
> documented?
>
> It's a working group document.  Feel free to contribute text as well as
criticism.

-K-


> Mike
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