Would you like to support this proposed standard?

1. 
http://www.zeroconf.org/
2. 
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/zeroconf-
charter.html
3. 
http://citeseer.org/cs?q=Zero+Configuration+Networking
4. 
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/3137
5. 
http://www.spack.org/index.cgi/ZeroConf
6. 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zeroconf/
7. 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/howl/
8. 
http://www.uow.edu.au/~dfs/projects/2003/projects2003.html
9. 
http://www.apple.com/macosx/jaguar/rendezvous.html
10. 
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Cocoa/TasksAndConcepts/ProgrammingTopics/NetServices/Concepts/AboutRendezvous.html
11. 
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/rendezvous/
12. 
http://www.neato.org/~femur/iu/
13. 
http://homepage.mac.com/macdomeeu/dev/current/mod_rendezvous/
14. 
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/04/08/mod_rendezvous.html
15. 
0309272247.58b3abbc%40posting.google.com">http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=40ed1d8f.0309272247.58b3abbc%40posting.google.com

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You'll have to be a bit more specific as to which bits you want to 
be supported by Python, and how.

Python seems to work fine with Apple's Rendezvous 
implementation, at least at the level at which I've tried it. But 
that's using Python in a client application, I haven't used it for a 
server. But advertising services requires OS-specific API's, I think?

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12. Can the Java based ZMAAP implementation be used by 
python?
Would you like to add a package for this API and Multicast 
DNS?
http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf-
announce/Current/msg12884.html
http://www.dns-sd.org/

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Please don't assign this to me: I'm not going to do the work, I'm 
just trying to get information from you.

If there is specific functionality you want: state it clearly. If it 
really deserves to be in _socket or some other standard Lib place 
and you provide good reasons it may get added. The chance of it 
getting added would increase immensely if you added a working 
patch:-)

If this is a large API that pertains only to zeroconf it should be an 
extension package, and not part of the core. In that case it's 
probably best to round up some people at comp.lang.python and 
team up to write that package.

I agree with Jack! Please work on an extension package and provide
patches if you need extra socket code in the core.