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Zero Configuration Networking (Zeroconf).  OK, well I may have been confusing Zero Configuration Networking and what I thought was happening with CuWiN and the Champagne-Urbana Mesh project.  And maybe not.  They could go together.

Zeroconf is about simple peer-to-peer discovery using IP as the only common protocol different platforms are likely to have.  It is designed to work even when carried out on links that are part of a larger, more-managed (-configured) network.  I think (just think) that this might work really well across NAT too, and that would be marvelous.  I haven't done the detail work, but the basic charter and scope of the Zeroconf work is appealing.
posted by Dennis at 5/2/2004 11:46:01 AM