Intel Whitepaper On UPnP

Posted by timothy on Saturday June 7, 2003 @11:32AM from the play-more-pray-more dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article by two developers at Intel provides an introduction and overview to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP), a standards-based technology for transparent network device connectivity that allows devices from various vendors to "just work" when plugged into the network, eliminating the administrative hassle typically associated with networking devices and making them programmable entities that can be controlled across the network. Intel has been a strong supporter of UPnP, and has released an open-source SDK for the development of Linux-based UPnP devices, hosted at SourceForge, which has been used in a number of UPnP products that will soon show up on the market."

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Re:Security? by bmetzler · 2003-06-07 13:32 · Score: 2, Insightful

If I plug something in to my network, I want to know exactly what it's doing and what it's not.
You seem to think that everyone wants, or should want, what, and only what you want. It's not true, people have diverse needs.

If you want your devices to just sit there dumbly, that's fine, turn uPnP off. But for the rest of us, it makes administration easy when things "just work."

If accounting needs a new printer, it is nice for me if I don't need to touch all 60 computers in accounting when I plug the printer in. It should just show up on all the computers. What's more, it should be the default printer if that's what I want.
-Brent