On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:53:12PM -0700, Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@xxxxxxxxx> 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. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf