-----Original Message----- From: Fernando Gont <fg...@si6networks.com> Date: Tuesday, February 26, 2013 8:55 AM To: Ted Lemon <mel...@fugue.com> Cc: "homenet@ietf.org" <homenet@ietf.org> Subject: Re: [homenet] Naming and Service Discovery
>On 02/26/2013 01:29 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: >> >>> May I introduce a third option? mDNS for the local net, DNS to glue >>> the multiple segments. That way, there's no additional code needed >>> on the clients, no extensions needed for DNS, and just some >>> software on the boxes linking the different network segments. >> >> I think that's what the mdns guys are talking about doing. > >My understanding was that they were going to extend mDNS to work on >multiple segments, rather than gluing mDNS "islands" with DNS... but I >have not really followed the discussions in the mdnsext. [jjmb] I thought this was one of the goals as well. > > >> I think >> it's a bad idea. It doesn't solve the multihoming problem; it's >> hard to figure out what problem it _does_ solve that can't be solved >> better using existing technology. > >Is there a requirements list for what naming/service discovery should >achive? i.e., are those requirements documented? -- because that would >be step #1 here. (yes, there are general requirements in the homenet >charter, but was wondering if something had been written for naming and >service discovery). [jjmb] there may be words, hard to say of if they are accurate. I confess I have not read them closely lately. > >Thanks, >-- >Fernando Gont >SI6 Networks >e-mail: fg...@si6networks.com >PGP Fingerprint: 6666 31C6 D484 63B2 8FB1 E3C4 AE25 0D55 1D4E 7492 > > > > >_______________________________________________ >homenet mailing list >homenet@ietf.org >https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
