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            [0] => <div class="wikitext"><p class="tightenable top">Please see: 
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            [6] =>  is an IETF working group for allowing ad-hoc TCP/IP networking.  The working group goal is to produce RFCs on standards-tracks.  Apple released its Rendezvous code in 
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            [8] => .  More research is required, but it seems that multiple 
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            [10] =>  clients can run on a single client machine if necessary.  If true, this removes the need to rely on system services, though not completely eliminating the need for slight configuration changes.</p>
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            [14] =>  - cross-platform implementation of the Zeroconf networking standard</li>
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            [16] =>  (was Jrendezvous) is a tool allowing other services to use TCP ports based on the Rendezvous code.</li>
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<p class="tightenable">At the Apple World Wide Developer Conference in June 2004 announcements were was made regarding their release of 
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            [18] =>  to other platforms.  A Windows Technology preview is 
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            [22] =>  and code was <b>
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            [24] => </b> for Linux, Solaris &amp; FreeBSD under the 
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            [26] => .  The release page also has a PocketPC version in binary form.  A Rendezvous 
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            [30] =>  exists as well.</p>
<p class="tightenable bottom">An article giving more context and details about implementations and competing standards.</p>
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<dl><dt class="tightenable bottom">It is similar in scope to two previous efforts</dt>
<dd class="tightenable top"><ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">Sun Microsystems 
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<li class="tightenable top bottom">Microsoft UPnP, based on Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) and HTTPMU, a multicast variant of HTTP.  (
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<p class="tightenable bottom">There are actually a set of requirements to provide this capability with differing states of implementation and agreement.  I found out about some of these implementations by polling some nice folks in the #twisted IRC channel on freenode.net.  Please update this list if you find useful references.</p>
<ol><li class="tightenable top bottom"><p class="tightenable top bottom">assign own IP address (Macs and Windows use 169.254/16 range already)</p>
<ul><li class="tightenable top bottom">ZCIP (IPv4 link-local auto-configuration): 
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<li class="tightenable top bottom">IPv6 already natively supports this functionality</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">gmds - 
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            [42] =>  implementation, CVS only, 2004 May 06 entry on 
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            [44] =>  by Bastien Nocera is a good summary</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom">a freedesktop project - Tim Jansen gave a 
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            [48] =>  during Aug 22-30, 2003 held in the Czech Republic.</li>
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<li class="tightenable top bottom">resolve own hostname (i.e. zeus.local)</li>
<li class="tightenable top bottom"><p class="tightenable top bottom">advertise own services</p>
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            [50] =>  - Apple has deployed this as part of Rendezvous, uses DNS as a service discovery protocol (service 
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            [52] => , historical 
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            [56] => , an IETF standards- track protocol)</li>
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<li class="tightenable top">&quot;Originally, there was a fourth requirement that allowed for the allocation of multicast addresses without a MADCAP server, but it was dropped due to a lack of interest.&quot; (from article referenced above)</li>
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    [_description] => ZeroConf is an IETF working group for allowing ad-hoc TCP/IP networking.  The working group goal is to produce RFCs on standards-tracks.  Apple released its Rendezvous code in September 2002.  More research is required, but it seems that multiple ZeroConf clients can run on a single client machine if necessary.  If true, this removes the need to rely on system services, though not completely eliminating the need for slight configuration changes.
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