[JDEV] Trepia

[Larry Wright]

In addition, Jeremie (yes, *our* Jeremie) has been playing with this. He's 
even got a site devoted to it at http://www.dotlocal.org. Under the heading 
of Software, mdnsd is his implementation, written in C.



On Tuesday 03 June 2003 07:01 am, David 'TheRaven' Chisnall wrote:
> Apple's Rendevous protocol is an implementation of the drafts from the
> IETF zeroconf working group.  Basically it broadcasts a packet with a
> TTL of 1 (or maybe a slightly higher small number in some envrionments,
> such as corporate networks with small subnets that support routing
> broadcast packets between subnets) and then waits for a response.  This
> kind of functionality could not be implemented within the framework of
> the Jabber protocol, since it is 100% peer-to-peer, but there's no
> reason why clients and servers could not implement the service discovery
> portion (http://www.dns-sd.org/), allowing a client to find a local
> server with which to register, and local clients to add to a roster.
>
> If anyone feels like adding this functionality to their client / server,
> the docs needed are the DNS over IP-multicast internet draft
> (draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns.txt) and the DNS-Based Service
> Discovery draft
> (http://files.dns-sd.org/draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd.txt).  (DNS-Based
> Service Discovery can be used with conventional DNS, but is much less
> useful.)
>
> Justin Karneges wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I'm sure many of you saw this on slashdot:  http://www.trepia.com/
> >
> >Looks like an interesting idea, and the client reminds me of Rhymbox, but
> > they don't use Jabber. :P :P :P
> >
> >And an article for ya:
> >http://slate.msn.com/id/2083733/
> >
> >It seems it suffers from the usual issues that Jabber does: no users, lame
> >client.  Well, at least we are farther along than Trepia.  However,
> > something tells me that with all this recent publicity, Trepia will get a
> > ton of users.
> >
> >IMO, a superior solution could be made using Jabber.  No need for Trepia
> > to re-invent the IM client wheel again or waste their converts on a
> > dead-end protocol.
> >
> >We already have extendable presence, vcards, avatars, browsing ..
> >
> >Btw, is there an open protocol for detecting LAN/Wi-Fi users?  I've heard
> > that Apple's Rendevous can do this, but I don't know anything about it. 
> > Trepia has the ability using a similar tactic, I think.
> >
> >Anyway, I'd like to see a JEP and related server and client
> > implementations by next week, thank you.
> >
> >-Justin
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