Re: [port-srv-reg] "recipe" service type and the unified IANA Service Name and Port Number Registry

[Stuart Cheshire <[e-mail]>]

On 18 Aug, 2011, at 06:31, Daniel G. Taylor wrote:

> Stuart,
>
> Thanks for contacting me. The recipe DNS-SD moniker is in use in an
> active open source project, but due to still being under active
> development and not having yet been packaged for various distributions
> or operating systems it should be fairly trivial to change with little
> to no fallout. The protocol itself is also still a draft, having only
> one active implementation in the wild so it should be fairly easy to
> update.
>
> Do you have a suggested alternative to use and a timeframe in which it
> should be applied?
>
> Take care,
> Daniel

This is excellent news, since it lets us resolve this inadvertent  
name collision amicably. Thanks for your help with this.

I would suggest using the service name "Recipe-Sharing", which fits  
within the 15-character limit. We will record it as such, or if you  
prefer something else, let us know.

The timeframe for making this change in your code is "as soon as  
reasonably convenient for your code".

In the short term, using "recipe" is not going to make the sky fall,  
but continuing to use it longer term could invite complaints of,  
"Hey, you're using our name." Potentially your clients could  
inadvertently discover instances of the other "recipe" service, which  
your clients don't know anything about, and clients of the other  
"recipe" service could inadvertently discover instances of your  
service, which they wouldn't know how to use. Of course this would be  
confusing and unhelpful for users.

Thanks again for your help, and feel free to ask me if you have any  
questions.

Stuart Cheshire <[e-mail]>
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