Workshops & BoFs/2011/SSDP as a system service

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This is a proposed workshop for the DesktopSummit 2011

See all proposed sessions, or the Workshops & BoFs webpage for more information.

Title

SSDP as a system service.

Description

Currently GUPnP (and other UPnP frameworks) implement Simple Service Discovery Protocol (SSDP) as part of the library/framework. Implementing it as separate system-wide service can bring about the following advantages:

  • Significant reduction in network traffic.
  • Faster discovery of services for SSDP/UPnP client UIs.
  • On demand start-up of SSDP/UPnP services.

With Cagibi (read this introduction for background) there exists a first version of a prototype for that, but currently lacks integration with any UPnP toolkit, is only used directly via the D-Bus interface by the KDE music player Amarok and the KDE network:/ kio-slave. And the author would be glad to have someone else do the final implementation :)

Hosts

  • Zeeshan Ali (zeeshanak@gnome.org)
  • Friedrich W. H. Kossebau (kossebau@kde.org)

Format

BoF

Expected Duration

30-45 minutes

Expected number of participants

5-10

Participants

  • Name of participant

Additional requirements