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."

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[TedCheshireAcad]

HTTP Forbidden error. Nice posting job.

It's already there...

[JoeLinux]

It's called IPv6....done.

Lemme guess Apple wants a patent on this protocol

[CDWert]

Lemme gues, this sounds great But am I betting Apple would want a patent on this "Single Protocol" ....Why not right

Here is an opp for someone with a few spare bucks and a patent atty to stick it to the big boys, patent it now, grab it early, I mean how hard can it be to write a patent that says "One protocol to subde them all ?"

I am kidding of course, writng patent abstract is a royal pain if youve ever done it, if they are good enough to withstand scrutiny that is.

Im game, 1 protocol for everything lets call it HTTP, that would rock, native http hard drive, just plug a HD into the network, instant web server.

I mean, wouldnt it be REALLY cool to have EVERYTHING talking back and forth in HTTP, then we would never have to worry about IIS or apache security again, it would ALL be swiss cheese.

(I really hop all you slashdotters know the above is ALL in jest)

I'm against it....

[2names]

A single protocol for everything, eh? OK. So when someone finds an exploit, they can break EVERYTHING on your system/connected to your system. Wonderful. And let's not forget: 1 protocol = focal point for exploitation which means more manpower to break it which means gets broken even faster than an IIS box. Again, Wonderful.