= Blueprint for Zero Configuration Networking =

Provide automatic service discovery so that a group of Netbooks running Sahana can find each other without the need for configuration.

Overview:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf

This is currently [wiki:SynchronisationImplementation Implemented] using:
 * Python Multicast DNS Service Discovery: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyzeroconf/
  * Patched version used: https://code.launchpad.net/~flavour/pyzeroconf/trunk

Alternatives are:
 * Apple's Bonjour:
  * http://developer.apple.com/networking/bonjour
  * Python interface: http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/fl/research/accessgrid/bonjour-py/bonjour-py.html
  * Windows licensing agreement: http://developer.apple.com/softwarelicensing/agreements/bonjour.html#bonjourwin
 * Avahi:
  * http://www.avahi.org/wiki/AboutAvahi
  * Python examples:
   * http://stackp.online.fr/?p=35
   * http://avahi.org/wiki/PythonBrowseExample
 * Microsoft's SSDP (used by [http://www.upnp.org UPnP]):
  * Python implementations:
   * http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/jmpc/pymeds.html
   * http://www.sourcesec.com/2008/11/07/miranda-upnp-administration-tool/
 * Java's JINI (now Apache River):
  * https://jini.dev.java.net/
  * This would need us to use Java libs via Jython unless we write our own Python libs!

The Open standard, SLP, seems unmaintained:
 * http://www.openslp.org
 * http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-slp/


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