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Re: About IPv6 private address
Hi Joe,
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:41:54 -0500
Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> wrote:
>
> On 4-Feb-2008, at 15:17, Mark Smith wrote:
>
> > Well, not everybody has or will have Apples, so they won't have
> > Bonjour
> > aware clients/browsers. There does need to be alternative methods.
>
> As far as I know, though, Bonjour isn't limited to Apple devices. It's
> definitely available on free *ix platforms (and I say "definitely"
> because I've used it) and apparently available on Windows too
> ("apparently" because I have not had a reason to use Windows since
> about 1995).
>
> So it doesn't seem reasonable to discount this as a reasonable
> mechanism on the grounds that "not everybody uses Apple products".
>
I'm certainly not against it, just pointing out that unlike web
browsers, bonjour clients aren't anywhere near as common, so it isn't
quite yet a universal way of performing service discovery (and neither
is SLP of course).
Regards,
Mark.