Apologies for cross posting. Further to the work done by Lee Badman earlier this year and the Educause petition to Apple[1] regarding the supportability of their products on Enterprise networks, Tim Chown at the University of Southampton, UK has highlighted to me that Apple have released an Internet Draft that is a specific consequence of the petition. For those of you over in the US, Tim Chown is very much involved in new networking technologies JANET and GEANT (UK and Europe equilivants of Internet2), and he's Co-Chair of the IETF BoF considering this problem. As you can see in his e-mail below he would very much like to get some feedback from the community on the mdnsext list to help shape the problem statement.
I think we need to thank Lee for initiating the petition, and a collective pat on the back for all signing the petition and then making Apple listen. Tomo. From: Tim Chown <t...@ecs.soton.ac.uk> Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-ADMIN] Petition to Apple for better Enterprise Support Date: 12 October 2012 12:37:42 BST To: wireless-ad...@jiscmail.ac.uk Reply-To: Wireless Issues in the JANET community <wireless-ad...@jiscmail.ac.uk> A heads up on the issue of service discovery for campus networks. There is a new mdnsext BoF planned for IETF85, which is about extending service discovery capabilities, to scenarios including campuses. An initial rather sketchy problem statement has been posted: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lynn-mdnsext-requirements-00 Discussion on the problem statement is encouraged, preferably on the mdnsext list. You can join that list here: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/mdnsext As a co-chair at least for the BoF, I can say that the more comments and discussion we have to gauge community opinion, the better. Tim [1] http://www.change.org/petitions/from-educause-higher-ed-wireless-networking-admin-group _________________________________ Tomo | Senior Infrastructure Engineer - Networks, Telecoms & Security | Information Technology. London Business School | Regent's Park | London NW1 4SA | United Kingdom. Switchboard +44 (0)20 7000 7000 | Direct line +44 (0)20 7000 7777 | Email t...@london.edu<mailto:t...@london.edu> www.london.edu<http://www.london.edu> London experience. World impact. Connect with us: [Description: twitter.jpg] <https://twitter.com/LondonBSchool> Follow us on Twitter<https://twitter.com/LondonBSchool> [Description: facebook.jpg] <http://www.facebook.com/pages/London-United-Kingdom/London-Business-School/14027365105> Become a fan on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/pages/London-United-Kingdom/London-Business-School/14027365105> ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
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