From: DJ Vollkasko (DJ_Vollkasko_at_gmx.net)
Date: Thu Jul 01 2004 - 23:34:23 PDT
I've just stumbled across http://www.zeroconf.org. Their mission is "not
solely to make current personal computer networking easier to use, though
this is certainly a useful benefit. The long-term goal of Zeroconf is to
enable the creation of entirely new kinds of networked products, products
that today would simply not be commercially viable because of the
inconvenience and support costs involved in setting up, configuring, and
maintaining a network to allow them to operate."
Sounds brilliant? You bet, and so does Apple, too, who put out Zeroconf in
their own flavour as "Rendezvous"
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/rendezvous:
"Rendezvous is a revolutionary networking technology that lets you create
an instant network of computers and devices without any configuration,
allows the services and capabilities such as file sharing and printing of
each device to be registered on the network, and allows these services to
be dynamically discoverable by other devices on the network. Rendezvous
enables this seamless networking and service discovery over the standard
and ubiquitous IP networking protocol."
On above website Apple publishes the source code (also executable for
PocketPCs); here http://developer.apple.com/macosx/rendezvous Apple has
code and executables for Windows 2000, Windows XP, Java, Linux, Solaris,
FreeBSD,
I believe this Zeroconf technology will spread thanks to this relabeling by
Apple. Think of Quicktime - it's by Apple, and it's everywhere, and it's
just a *player*. This is going to be much more massive and useful, esp.
with wireless networking via Wifi and Bluetooth and all that good stuff.
Tivo, HP, Lexmark, Epson and Brother are already announcing
Rendezvous-compatible products, e.g. zero-configuration shared printers.
It would seem to me as a good idea to get this technology onto the Newton,
too, if only via a Waba adaptation of the Java Code. What do you think?
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