Subject: Re: Slightly OT: Apple to Release Source Code to its zeroconf implementation

From: Erik Guttman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 11:56:45 +0200 (CEST)

It is important to distinguish between Rendezvous and ZEROCONF.

Rendezvous may be inspired by or even based on work in the 
ZEROCONF working group (address autoconfiguration and the
requirements documents), but these are not yet RFCs.  The
zeroconf requirements themselves are not a specification,
they cannot be 'implemented.'  Further, the naming and 
service discovery components of Rendezvous are neither work 
items of the ZEROCONF nor any other working group.

I wish Apple great success with their product and open source 
efforts, but it is indeed off topic - and it is NOT an 
implementation of ZEROCONF specifications.  I encourage those
who wish to discuss Rendezvous to join a mailing list devoted
to that topic.

Best regards,

Erik Guttman
ZEROCONF WG cochair