Apple Rendezvous The Rendezvous logo. Rendezvous is Apple's trade name for its implementation of the IETF Zeroconf protocol - a computer network technology used in Apple's Mac OS X from version 10.2 onwards. It uses standard DNS packets in a new way. Thus it is a new service, but it is using a technology that is relatively old, DNS over IP. It has been widely rumored that due to a 2004 settlement between Apple and Tibco Software Inc., Rendezvous will be called OpenTalk in the future, as Tibco had a different product called Rendezvous before Apple. Industry insiders agree that a name change is likely, but doubt that OpenTalk will be the new name. Apple has so far declined to comment. Rendezvous is a general method to discover services on a local area network. This technology is widely used throughout Mac OS X and allows users to setup a network without any configuration. Currently it is used by Mac OS X to find printers and file sharing servers. It is used by iTunes to find music shares, iPhoto to find photo shares, iChat to find other local iChat users, and SubEthaEdit to find document collaborators. Additionally it is used by Safari to find local web servers, such as configuration pages for local devices. Without special DNS configuration, Rendezvous only works on a single subnet. There seems to be a misperception that a service made available over Rendezvous is "on the Internet", or available to the world-wide users of the IP network known as the Internet. This is not true. Services are automatically made available to only the users of a single physical network, be it Ethernet or FireWire IP-based, which usually encompasses a fairly small area. The term rendezvous is also known as a synchronization strategy for message exchange of machines and persons. See also Universal Plug 'n' Play Zeroconf Service Location Protocol Concurrent programming External links General information Rendezvous - Networking, simplified Apple Rendezvous FAQ Programmers information Rendezvous developer website Rendezvous documentation Rendezvous open source project O'Reilly: Stuart Cheshire, Apple - Zero Configuration Networking with Rendezvous Related projects and software Mod_rendezvous - a Rendezvous module for Apache running under Jaguar and earlier versions of Mac OS X O'Reilly: Virtual Hosts, mod_rendezvous_apple, and Apache on Mac OS X DNS Service Discovery - A tool to discover services on the local network General Zeroconf information The Zeroconf charter Zeroconf overview Citations about Zeroconf from CiteSeer Other implementations of Zeroconf Zeroconf - The SourceForge.net project page for a Linux and Unix implementation of Zeroconf Howl - The SourceForge.net project page for Howl, a cross-platform implementation of Zeroconf JmDNS - The SourceForge.net project page for JmDNS, a Java based implementation of Multicast DNS (part of Zeroconf) ZMAAP - A Java based ZeroConf implementation MDNSD - A lightweight open source implementation of Multicast DNS (part of Zeroconf) __NOTOC__ Most Popular Articles: Music    Musical Instruments    Guitar    Classical Music    History    Music Definition    Country Music    Rock Music    Pop Music    Hip Hop    Rap    DJ    Video Games    Casino Games    Poker    Blackjack    Casinos    Real Estate    Loan    Auction    eBay    Marketing    Search Engine Optimization    File Sharing    MP3    Music Industry    Kazaa    Internet    Supermodel    Fashion    Fashion Designers    Erotica    Modeling    Clothing    Boots    Shoes    Diamond Engagement Rings    Diamond    Rugs    Gospel Music    Affiliate    E-Commerce    Radio This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html You may copy and modify it as long as the entire work (including additions) remains under this license. You must provide a link to http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html To view or edit this article at Wikipedia go to http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Rendezvous