Hi, I've forwarded your mail to the sane mailing list. I'm not sure who should be the contact person, so it's probably the best to discuss this on the list.
regards -- jochen Alex Austin wrote: > Jochen, > > I am working on building an integrated product which runs SANEd. When > looking into writing frontend drivers, I realized that automatic > discovery would be advantageous, and the best protocol for this, right > now, seems to be DNS-SD (used in Apple's Bonjour suite). I will soon be > writing a windows WIA microdriver for the SANE net backend, and I think > auto discovery is necessary for it to work properly. (UPnP doesn't seem > to quite fit...) > > DNS-SD relies on DNS SRV records sent via multicast DNS service. To use > this technology effectively, a DNS SRV Service Type needs to be > registered, and I don't think I'm the right person to specify as > "in-charge" of the protocol. > > See http://www.dns-sd.org/ServiceTypes.html > > The info I've collected so far: > Short name of protocol: sane-port > Long description: SANE Control Port > Name and Email of Responsible Party: Jochen Eisinger > <joc...@penguin-breeder.org <mailto:joc...@penguin-breeder.org>> <- ??? > Is this okay? > URL of Protocol Description: http://www.sane-project.org/html/doc015.html > Primary transport protocol: _tcp > TXT Record service keys: None > > Would you care to register it, or can you point me to a more appropriate > person? > > Thank you. > > -- > - Alex Austin > Circuitsoft Computer Services > (651) 238-9273 > www.circuitsoftcs.com <http://www.circuitsoftcs.com> > > "...and then I visited Wikipedia ...and the next 8 hours are a blur."
