Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation

[Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell () gmail com>]

On Monday 21 Nov 2011 20:27:55 Owen DeLong wrote:
> I suspect that mDNS/Rendezvous will become much more widespread in
> the IPv6 household and will become the primary service discovery
> mechanism. It actually works quite well and is relatively resilient to 
> either frequent renumbering or the ill-advised use of ULA.

A while ago there was some discussion of "wouldn't 
mDNS/Rendezvous/Bonjour that doesn't suck be nice?" on the list. I for 
one agree with Owen that it's important for a whole lot of things and 
will get more so in trying to deliver the promises of IPv6. (If you want 
"network everywhere" you probably need "zero-configuration everywhere", 
and the network that's everywhere is IP.)

I also think it's an underestimated contribution to the success of Apple 
in the iDevice era, much as network people tend to hate it.

So perhaps we could identify what it is about mDNS service discovery 
that we hate and what could be improved.

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