Re: [dnssd] Setting device friendly names

[Ted Lemon <[e-mail]>]

I think the point Barbara is making about consistency is right, and that we
may be in violent agreement. :)

In general there are devices that you'd like to be able to configure using
the network, and devices that you definitely do not want configured by the
network.

On Jul 21, 2016 12:31, "Stuart Cheshire" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 21 Jul 2016, at 02:54, STARK, BARBARA H <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> > UPnP SSDP announcements include a friendly name in the SSDP header. To
> me, this is comparable to the instance name in DNS-SD / mDNS. And
> comparable to a NetBIOS name.
>
> Yes. I don’t know any service discovery protocol that *doesn’t* have
> “friendly names”.
>
> The question was about a ubiquitous protocol for *setting* the “friendly
> name” that’s universally supported on (virtually) all devices.
>
> > When I ask my router for a list of hosts on the network, and when I ask
> my BluRay player to show me a list of content sources (UPnP), the lists use
> the same names for devices (because these devices use the same name across
> protocols).
>
> If one computer shares two USB printers on the network, do both shared
> printers have to appear with the same name (the same as the name of the
> computer that’s sharing them)? Restricting services to
> one-instance-per-host is quite limiting.
>
> <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6760#section-3.3> Address Services, Not
> Hardware
>
> > Yes, there is also a UPnP Service defined that allows for remotely
> changing the friendly name.
> https://openconnectivity.org/upnp/specifications/friendlyinfoupdate1. But
> this service was only published in 2014 (long, long after the UPnP Device
> Architecture required "friendly name" in SSDP advertisements), it is not
> widely implemented (not mandatory to implement)
>
> Do you personally own *any* device that supports this? I know the
> “standard” exists. My question was how many products actually implement it.
> The world is full of so-called “official standards” that no real-world
> products implement.
>
> > FWIW, UPnP is an ISO/IEC standard.
>
>
> Yes, a great example: OSI networking.
>
> Stuart Cheshire
>
>