From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg@...>
Date: 2005-02-05T00:45:47+09:00
Subject: Re: ANN: net-mdns, multicast DNS and service discovery (aka "Rendezvous")

Ben Giddings wrote:
> On Feb 3, 2005, at 17:33, Lyndon Samson wrote:
> 
>> Rendezvous is a ( good ) Tibco messaging product, don't get their
>> lawyers fired up again ;-)
> 
> 
> Um, google sez Apple wins.  Apple has called their implementation of 
> zeroconf Rendezvous forever.  If there's anybody's lawyers we have to 
> worry about it's, Apple's.  I think they trademarked "Rendezvous", the 
> IETF name is "zeroconf".  Meh, whatever.  It's great software, we can 
> figure out the names later.  :)

Actually, Apple is phasing out the name "Rendezvous" because of the 
Tibco lawsuit.  Regardless, just call it MDNS (multicast DNS) or DNSSD 
(DNS service discovery), depending on what you're actually talking about 
  and you're fine.

-garrett