Re: [homenet] Introduction to draft-ietf-homenet-simple-naming

[Michael Thomas <[e-mail]>]

On 05/31/2018 02:32 PM, Ted Lemon wrote:
> In practice, you just change the device's name in its web ui. Then 
> it's starts advertising the new name, and the old name stops working. 
> If you have enough of a model of this to change the name, you also 
> know enough to select the printer under it's new name. Of course it 
> would be nice if we could have it publish some kind of announcement 
> about the name change.

If we have expectation of somebody configuring their printer with a web 
UI, why should we not expect
the same for routers, or naming services?

IMO, people don't futz around with things unless there's a reason. But 
they will if they want/have to. These things
need to be dumbed down to be certain, but I've never thought we need to 
be hamstrung by the assumption
of zeroconf just because people don't currently have much of a 
relationship with their networking gear.

Mike