Re: [homenet] Request for Comments on New Internet Draft for Homenet WG

Markus Stenberg <markus.stenberg@iki.fi> Thu, 09 October 2014 14:28 UTC

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Heya,

it seems to be aiming to work only within link-local collision domain, and therefore it seems to be outside the work homenet WG is chartered to do. Perhaps dnssd is more appropriate for this work, although I am not sure about that either (they do more than just naming, as the focus is on service discovery).

Also, I am not sure why you are not just using mDNS (RFC6762) or SSDP (of UPnP) or something else; you get service discovery AND naming with them.

Finally, use of DNSSL option for this seems like a bad idea. For example, let’s assume my ISP gives me ’services.isp.com’ search path, and it gets propagated to my LAN. My devices start showing up under ..services.isp.com names (too) :-p

Cheers,

-Markus

P.S. Name construction scheme is interesting.