= Blueprint for ZeroConf =

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

Best toolkit to use is probably 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

Alternatives are:
 * Microsoft's SSDP (used by UPnP): http://www.upnp.org/resources/sdks.asp
 * Java's JINI (now Apache River): https://jini.dev.java.net/
These 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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