[avahi] Re: [avahi-commits] r637 - /trunk/service-type-database/service-types

[Marc Krochmal]

Hey Lennart,

I'm now getting your commit e-mails and I noticed this check-in.  I'm  
a little concerned about another source of service types popping up,  
because DNS-SD becomes a lot yes useful if everyone is using  
different service types.  It makes it much more difficult for  
products to interoperate if developers must search in multiple lists  
to find the service types they should use.

I'm also wondering what you mean by the comment that says dns-sd.org  
"is not a source that complies with the criterion".  The list on dns- 
sd.org doesn't really have a license because it's just a list of  
service types.  If you feel like you can't use this list, then I'm  
sure we'd be willing to slap a BSD style license header to the top of  
this page.

Regarding the RSS types, I'm wondering why we need two different  
types for this.  Wouldn't "_rss._tcp" be enough?  Can't the protocol  
figure out what version to use?

As an example, we don't have an _http10 and _http11 type, and there's  
ssh version 1 and version 2, but we only have a single _ssh type.

I think RSS is important enough that we should think about this a  
little first, because whatever we decide, it will be in use for many  
years, and it's always a pain if applications that used to browse for  
the *wrong* type then have to transition to the new type by browsing  
for both for a little while.  I hate it when that happens.  :-)

-Marc





On Sep 26, 2005, at 8:21 AM, svnmailer-noreply at 0pointer.de wrote:

> Author: lennart
> Date: Mon Sep 26 17:21:17 2005
> New Revision: 637
>
> URL: http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi? 
> rev=637&root=avahi&view=rev
> Log:
> add RSS types
>
> Modified:
>     trunk/service-type-database/service-types
>
> Modified: trunk/service-type-database/service-types
> URL: http://0pointer.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/service-type- 
> database/service-types?rev=637&root=avahi&r1=636&r2=637&view=diff
> ====================================================================== 
> ========
> --- trunk/service-type-database/service-types (original)
> +++ trunk/service-type-database/service-types Mon Sep 26 17:21:17 2005
> @@ -80,3 +80,6 @@
>
>  _ipp._tcp:Internet Printer
>
> +_http-rss091._tcp:Web Syndication RSS 0.91
> +
> +_http-rss20._tcp:Web Syndication RSS 2.0
>
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