Re: Potential charter item: mDNS/DNS-SD

On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:34 , Dave Raggett wrote:
> This is an active area of work for the European FP7 project "webinos" of
> which W3C/ERCIM is a part. We are looking at ways to enable discovery
> over a variety of interconnect technologies e.g IP networks (mDNS, SSDP,
> SLP), USB, Firewire, Bluetooth, Zigbee, and by context (social network
> connections and smart spaces). 
> 
> The bottom line is that if device discovery is part of the DAP charter,
> we will be able to contribute specifications and hands on implementation
> experience as well as to help with editing WDs.

It would certainly be very interesting to hear Webinos's perspective on this, and if it means more participation and help implementing then so much the better!

In chartering terms, we need however to be strict about scope and to have a good idea of what kind of specification we're heading towards. Could you provide more detail?

> See http://webinos.org/ for more details.

There isn't much on the site. A few months back I sent an email to "be part of it" as it says but apart from finding a familiar face at the other end I've never heard back L)

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Robin Berjon - http://berjon.com/

Received on Thursday, 10 March 2011 13:08:27 UTC