Re: Local service location advice

On Mon, 2017-09-11 at 15:51 -0400, Ted Guild wrote:
> TAG,
> 
> I am asking for your guidance on something that has been awkward and
> unresolved for some time.
> 
> For Automotive we are defining a service that will reside on a
> vehicle's local network. This service is not meant to be addressed
> publicly, ever, out of privacy and security considerations.
> 
> In the present spec draft we have a hard-coded hostname, wwwivi. It
> will be used in wss:// and potentially later https:// URIs.
> 
> Appending .localhost or .localdomain will add some clarity. The local
> network should be able to handle resolution of any hostname.

I meant to give the GH issue link instead.

https://github.com/w3c/automotive/issues/223

> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Team/team-auto/2017Sep/0011.html
> 
> I would suspect there may be similar concerns for Web of Things,
> Second
> Screen and other activities. They may be more suitable to network
> discovery protocols due to adhoc nature of things and screen services
> becoming available on a network. We feel it would be preferable to be
> rigidly defined to prevent eg an impersonating service or introducing
> latency.
> 
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Ted Guild <ted@w3.org>
W3C Systems Team
http://www.w3.org