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Rendezvous Developer Stuart Cheshire Interviewed

Posted by pudge on from the i-just-want-rendezvous-enabled-bolo dept.

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."

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  1. Other things Mr. Cheshire provided us with: by norwoodites · · Score: 4, Informative

    Number 1: Bolo
    Number 2: Apple Events (PPC) over TCP/IP.

  2. Re:Forbidden by (startx) · · Score: 2, Informative

    I got that when I first clicked the link too. then I selected the location bar (with the link in it) and hit enter again. Loaded fine. maybe they're filtering by the http refer.

  3. Re:Lemme guess Apple wants a patent on this protoc by arloguthrie · · Score: 2, Informative

    In his keynote, Steve Jobs said that Rendezvous would be an open standard, and it might as well be -- it's just an extension of TCP/IP, basically.

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    Cheese it! It's the FEDS!
  4. Re:bolo ! by eclarkso · · Score: 2, Informative
    I don't know if you've looked at Lin/Winbolo, but it's breathed some life into a great game...

    The new version are a little buggier and don't play quite as well as MacBolo, but larger games play much better. Check out the website.

    Happy boloing!

  5. What zeroconf is not by SideshowBob · · Score: 5, Informative

    Zeroconf is not a protocol for letting devices talk to each other. As others have already pointed out, there are already protocols which are far better at doing that.

    Zeroconf is a protocol for letting devices discover that other devices exist -- without requiring a human to explicitly tell each device.

    Don't think that Zeroconf is trying to replace anything.

    As for IPv6, true it already has link-local addressing. Thats 1 of the 4 things Zeroconf does. The auto-discovery of *other* devices isn't built into IPv6.

  6. For those who can't read... by sfgoth · · Score: 5, Informative

    The "Single Protocol" Stuart is talking about is TCP/IP, not some newfangled daydream.

    -pmb

  7. Re:Universal, hermaphroditic connector by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Apple already support part of the idea - recent PowerMac and Powerbook dont care if you use an straight or twisted cable - it senses what sort you uses - and if you connect to an hub/switch or direct to an computer - and sets everything right.

    Plug in ethernetcable, and it just works.

    Agree that it would be lovely to get rid of female/male connectors