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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. 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.

  2. 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