On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Michael McGrady <mmcgr...@topiatechnology.com> wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2008, at 8:12 PM, Niclas Hedhman wrote: >> >> Go read RFC-2165 and all the related ones. Then come back and say that >> IETF is not concerned with Service Lookup. It is a different topic >> whether Jini should now use SLP or not, but AFAIU SLP wasn't around >> when the Jini team started out... > > The first public notice of JINI was by NYT reporter John Markoff in 1999 and > SLA version RFC-2165 was in 1997. At any rate, due to the nature of the > IEtrF Sun certainly could have created SLA for JINI with minimal difficulty > for IEtF whenever it wanted to. You and I could have, if you and I had a > corporation and a collaboration.
At first one would yell "NIH syndrome", but then Sun Microsystem was part of the RFC-2165 authors, so... But I agree, that Jini could have changed to SLP at some point in time, and I have no answer why it didn't happen. I suspect it was a matter of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it..." Cheers Niclas
