On 05/31/2018 02:45 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
We aren't assuming that. Of course in all likelihood it will be present, but the vast majority of end users never even realize that there is a web UI available. My point was simply that those users who are aware of that will be able to cope with adversity.
Maybe that's the heart of the problem. It sounds like of like what's needed is a portal which knows about all of the other devices/sites around the house and gives a click through to them. That very well could be my router. Or alternatively, maybe my browser can figure it out itself and cons up a web page on its very own and give me a nice shiny "homenet" button.
Mike
On Thu, May 31, 2018, 14:41 Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com <mailto:m...@mtcc.com>> wrote:On 05/31/2018 02:32 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: > In practice, you just change the device's name in its web ui. Then > it's starts advertising the new name, and the old name stops working. > If you have enough of a model of this to change the name, you also > know enough to select the printer under it's new name. Of course it > would be nice if we could have it publish some kind of announcement > about the name change. If we have expectation of somebody configuring their printer with a web UI, why should we not expect the same for routers, or naming services? IMO, people don't futz around with things unless there's a reason. But they will if they want/have to. These things need to be dumbed down to be certain, but I've never thought we need to be hamstrung by the assumption of zeroconf just because people don't currently have much of a relationship with their networking gear. Mike _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org <mailto:homenet@ietf.org> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet _______________________________________________ homenet mailing list homenet@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/homenet
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