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Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?

Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> Tue, 14 October 2014 16:27 UTC

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Subject: Re: [homenet] Let's make in-home ULA presence a MUST !?
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On Oct 14, 2014, at 11:22 AM, Sander Steffann <sander@steffann.nl> wrote:
> One thing that does worry me is every application developer having to re-invent the code for all of this (find labels, actually implement the networking code correctly etc). I think a standard API should be available for all of this. Otherwise all operating system vendors and distributions will come up with something completely different which will make it even harder for the application developers to do the right thing.

It would be helpful if you could participate in the MIF working group, which is working on solving this problem.

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