On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:53:12PM -0700,
 Stuart Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> Please stop calling it "proprietary". 

"A proprietary solution by any other name would still be proprietary"
:-)

> The mDNS specificiation is publicly available, and is the result of
> many years of open public discussion.  There are multiple
> independent open source implementations.

It is not sufficient to make it an open standard (by your criteria,
Java or PDF would be non-proprietary). The most important criteria is
the fact that the specification is NOT controlled by any given private
entity.




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