>It is not typical for us to make statements in our standards >regarding what proprietary mechanisms our standards are or are not >intended to compete with, nor do we typically include statements that >compare the features of our standards to proprietary protocols. Please stop calling it "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. Just because a certain IETF inner circle decided to turn their backs on it doesn't make it proprietary. Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@xxxxxxxxx> * Wizard Without Portfolio, Apple Computer, Inc. * www.stuartcheshire.org _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf