Intel Whitepaper On UPnP

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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UPnP.... another wintel "standard"

[SkewlD00d]

Considering the source: M$FT/intel... how likely is it to be a patent/royalty-free "open" standard? Who's on the technical committee? I love it when win/tel secretly develop a standard in a black-box environment, then get ISO/IEEE to rubber-stamp it. You get good things like DDE/DDX, OLE, OLE2, ATL, COM, ActiveX, and VBS. Well, I guess Sun is guilty for that too, w/ Java.

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