> > I agree. To me, "no host changes must be required" says that everything hosts > can do today, they will still be able to do inside a homenet, without > changing. But there is nothing that should prevent homenet from putting in > capabilities that will provide a better experience for hosts that do change. > Just so long as what's there doesn't break. It's a backward compatibility > requirement. That's exactly the point. If my PC can discover my printer, media device etc. today if it is on the same link and we are introducing home networks with multiple links, I want this discovery to seamlessly work across links without needing to update my PC's operating system.
Sure, nobody does hinder anyone from doing new cool and shiny stuff and inventing protocols which require host changes, but it doesn't absolve us from fixing the existing stuff. In the end it just means, we now have increased complexity because we have to both support the new and shiny and the old and boring and expected-to-still-work stuff. _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
