Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Ruminations on Arch Desiderata

[Paul Snively]

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Hi Doran!

On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 09:52  PM, Doran Moppert wrote:

> in this case, would you mind going off list, at least until you've 
> read about
> tla-grab and worked out some specific goals?
Sure; I have plenty of research to do at this point.

> I don't like to flame, but DNS-SD, mDNS are _not_ relevant to arch as 
> they
> deal with network-layer services. Another layer (a "well-known URL", 
> if you
> can interpret that in the same way as "well-known service") will join 
> that to
> tla grab and then you're back on topic.
Well, that's still not clear to me, especially with the discovery that 
DNS-SD does actually define a mechanism for registering URLs as 
services, as well as other kinds of metadata. So it really is sensible 
to refer to an arch archive URL as an "arch service" in the sense that 
DNS-SD is a "service discovery system." It may remain the case that 
"tla grab" is the appropriate integration point, but I would expect the 
conversation as to a) whether that's the case, and b) if so, how it 
should be designed, to occur here.

On the other hand, mDNS clearly is irrelevant to the discussion apart 
from being the answer to the question "how do you reach your goal of 
configurationless operation?"

> (on a positive note, I look forward to seeing tla grab married to a 
> standard,
> lower-level service and the concept maturing as a result)
Thanks--I'm heartened by the interest in the general subject and look 
forward to learning about tla grab and how all of this might come 
together.

> D.
Best regards,
Paul

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