On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 06:54:57 -0700 Bill Manning <bmanning@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > there is a fairly extensive history of multicast DNS... > in 1998/1999, along w/ this draft: > <snip> > ... so multicast DNS has been around, with various implementations over > the years. > the Apple mDNS spec is not an IETF work product, in part because the > IETF rejected > it. Same w/ the DARPA mDNS work I did six years ago. I believe that > Bernard and > his team are where they are because they had the patience and money to > wait out a > multi year IETF standardization effort. I ran out of money, Apple > wanted to ship solutions. > (i think)... the Apple specs are available as are the mDNS specs. > neither is proprietary. > > that said, i think it is reasonable for the IETF to provide its > imprinture on LLMNR as an IETF > standards track activitiy for naming on a link-local environment. The > work has not violated the > processes, has met all the IETF criteria and should proceed. Pretty > much a clear case of a protocol > designed by committee. And its not like anyone will use it of course. > Even Microsoft appears to have abandon it. > > --bill > > I am perhaps just being slow and dim-witted after minor surgery, but why should a protocol that no-one will use be standards track ? This discussion is beginning to remind me of the scientific standards processes involving the Soviet bloc that I was involved with during the Cold War. That is not a good sign... Regards Marshall Eubanks _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf