Steve's Rendezvous notes from OSXCON

Cory Doctorow 7:29 am Thu Oct 3, 2002

My pal Steve Jenson took killer notes at yesterday's Rendezvous (zero-configuration networking) talk at the OS X con. Kevin Burton swears he's going to port this to Linux next week. Apple's first Rendezvous app, iChat, has been a central fixture at this convention. People set their status-lines in the chat interface to say things like "At the morning keynote" or "getting breakfast," speakers who mention interesting code send it to the audience by iChat, and during the talks, you can see a hundred iBooks, TiBooks and G3 Powerbooks with iChat up and running, talking about the events.

This isn't about the large network, it's not about buying books on amazon,
looking up maps, etc. Those work pretty fine as is.

It's about the fact that Dan
Moniz and I in the same room had a hard time getting our Lisp's talk
to each other the other night. how miserable!

IPv4 Link-Local Availability

Addressing:
* Self-Assigned Link-Local Addressing
* Pick random address in 169.254/16 (that's why it does that. huh)
* ARP to see if anybody is using it.
* If someone else is using it, try again
* Ongoing conflict checking.

draft-ietf-zeroconf-ipv4-linklocal-07.txt

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