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

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Fri, 26 August 2011 06:39 UTC

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Subject: Re: [port-srv-reg] "xmp" service type and the unified IANA Service Name and Port Number Registry
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On 8/25/2011 11:03 PM, Stuart Cheshire wrote:
> On 25 Aug 2011, at 22:40, Joe Touch wrote:
>
>> Sure, but you need to deploy something like Bonjour. I've been around that block a few times, and that's a substantial hurdle outside systems for which Bonjour is already installed (unless you want to sign Apple's licensing agreement and distribute Bonjour with your code, but that hurdle is unacceptable to many too).
>
> You don't need to use Apple's code to use DNS SRV records (but if you do want to use Apple's code, the "licensing agreement" is the Apache 2 license).

The former isn't the issue - it's known that the format isn't 
proprietary; the latter has been (and has changed over the years).

Joe

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