Presence and IntComm WG

[Peter Saint-Andre <>]

On 7/16/12 2:21 PM, Tim Callahan wrote:
> Update: The link to the petition doesn't work: "put together a petition"
> should instead link
> to 
> http://listserv.educause.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind1207&L=WIRELESS-LAN&P=94580.
>  It is fairly short and worth a quick read.
> 
> Also, a little more clarification: Bonjour isn't the only issue.  In
> fact, there is Wide Area Bonjour networking
> <http://www.dns-sd.org/ServerSetup.html> and other one-off solutions for
> certain issues.  But, as the petition states, "Bonjour technologies also
> do not work in a scalable, sustainable fashion between different IP
> subnets. Work arounds such as Wide-Area Bonjour (DNS-SD) and Dynamic DNS
> updates have major scalability and security issues in enterprise networks."
> 
> In some cases, like Apple TV and iTunes, cross-network sharing is
> disabled by design - to protect content, etc.  So, even when Wide Area
> Bonjour works, some applications won't share outside of their local
> network.  Solutions that address this issue are needed (we should
> presume Apple can't/won't change the criteria.)
> -Tim

Tim, it sounds like you might want some kind of gateway between
link-local mode and global mode. I've given some thought to that for
various projects, but I haven't pursued it seriously yet...

Peter

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