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Apple Releases Rendezvous As Open Source

Posted by pudge on from the and-darwin-6.1-too dept.

clarencek writes "Apple has released Rendezvous as Open Source, as promised. Excerpt: Starting today, developers can download Rendezvous as open source under the Apple Public Source License. Rendezvous is part of a broader Open Source release today from Apple which includes the Darwin 6.0.1 operating system and additional Open Directory plug-ins. Together, these underscore Apple's commitment to making core protocols freely available as open standards and open source."

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  1. Rendezvous, SLP, and UPnP by maggard · · Score: 5, Informative
    OK - complete karmawhore here (like I need it) but before there are a hundred what is it? posts here are links to the answers:

    Here's an overview of earlier Apple implementation called SLP (RFC 2608) also used by Novell:

    Finally, for completeness here is UPnP:

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