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Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Fri, 26 August 2005 07:21 UTC

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From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com>
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On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 06:53:12PM -0700,
 Stuart Cheshire <cheshire@apple.com> wrote 
 a message of 20 lines which said:

> Please stop calling it "proprietary". 

"A proprietary solution by any other name would still be proprietary"
:-)

> The mDNS specificiation is publicly available, and is the result of
> many years of open public discussion.  There are multiple
> independent open source implementations.

It is not sufficient to make it an open standard (by your criteria,
Java or PDF would be non-proprietary). The most important criteria is
the fact that the specification is NOT controlled by any given private
entity.




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