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Rendezvous Developer Stuart Cheshire Interviewed
overunderunderdone writes "Found this interview of Stuart Cheshire, the Apple employee who developed Rendezvous (a.k.a. Zeroconf) and co-chairs the ZEROCONF working group. He provides some interesting history behind Zeroconf. But I thought his ideas for the future of Rendezvous was more interesting. He envisions a single protocol for everything from the keyboard, hard disk, peripherals, to the net connection -- just one kind of socket in the back of your box."
I seem to have accidentally stumbled across MacSlash.
News for smarmy elitist artsy-fartsy types who compare their computer to a personal relationship or complain about speakers. Stuff that matters.
I used to tell my parents that "of course you can set up the computer on your own". because everything on the back of the box was a different shape. and the mouse and keyboard (on their systems at lease) were color coded. so it's no biggie. you just keep plugging until it FITS. now, it'll be the opposite. of course you can set up the computer. because it doesn't matter where you put the plug. they're ALL right.
You see, without that little doohicky, the universe stops.
http://propheteer.org
... and in darkness bind them. Just wait until Microsoft adds their IP to the protocol and mangle it so that you have a MS universal protocol. All others pay royalties of course.
I am not very optimistic about universal protocols.
I think the only thing that's completely standardized across all computing platforms is the power cable. Can we just connect everything with power cables?