Re: [homenet] Name service design principles: a proposal

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:

> On 06/29/2012 12:58 PM, james woodyatt wrote:
>
>> On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:27 , Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe I can add some fuel to Olafur's fire. I'd like to say that the
>>> homenet name service MUST be DNS.
>>>
>> Let's go further.  Let's say that it must be DNS-Based Service Discovery
>> [I-D.cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd], which has been in the RFC Editor Queue for
>> 199 days at this point, so one imagines that it stands a decent chance of
>> being a published RFC by the time HOMENET finishes its first round of major
>> work.
>>
>>
>>
> James -- I'm not that familiar with dns-sd and it's been 1000 years since
> i've
>

Well, you're in luck.  There's an O'Reilly book called "Zero Configuration
Networking" that explains all...

> thought about nbp, but services aren't the only thing I have in my home. Or
> at least I wouldn't necessarily think of some things grouped together as
> named
> services like, oh say, my light switches. Maybe I'd want to think of them
> that
> way, but maybe I wouldn't. So I'm not sure  that I'd be comfortable saying
> that
> it's a particular flavor of DNS like DNS-sd.
>
> Here's a short list of services that are already defined:
http://www.dns-sd.org/ServiceTypes.html

I will shortly be refreshing
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lynn-core-discovery-mapping/
to describe a way to use mDNS/DNS-SD to discover REST web service
interfaces within a device.  So if you think of your light switches in that
way,
you're covered.

> That, and I can't tell whether this makes it easier, harder or neutral on
> my
> original request that making the transition from a private name space to a
> public one trivial. Can I use service discovery from across the Internet
> to get
> back to things in my home assuming that I have a registered domain? Sorry
> for the ignorance, but nbp was a decidedly localized protocol.
>
> I can point you to http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheshire-dnsext-nbpfor historical
background, but best to just read up on DNS-SD.  As far as transitioning
from
private to public domains, that's where resolve.conf helps.  Also, see
http://dyn.com/support/bonjour-and-dns-discovery/

-K-

Mike
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