New ZeroConf Spec

[David Balazic]

Matthew Paul Thomas wrote :

> Suggestion: Replace the alert with a checkbox in each relevant 
> application's preferences. This has the major advantages of (a) not 
> being an alert, and (b) letting the software present the choice in 
> terms of things you might actually want to do. ("Share my music", as 
> found in Rhythmbox, is something humans are interested in 
> doing; "Would 
> you like automatic discovery of other computers sharing rhythmbox 
> service?" is not.)

But then why use a firewall at all ?

what benefit is in application calling

{
 listen(x,y);
 tell_firewall_to_open(PORT_FOO);
}

versus a simple listen(x,y) ?

Or will this preferences be handled by some system software ?
Which will then configure the FW for each application ?

Regards,
David Balažic