[bind10-dev] Why the non-standard mDNS rather than LLMNR?

[Stephane Bortzmeyer]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 03:09:19PM +0200,
 Shane Kerr <shane at isc.org> wrote 
 a message of 41 lines which said:

> A quick look at Wikipedia reveals:

Quite biased article.

>         Apple's Multicast DNS (mDNS) is an open specification,

??? What is their definition of open ? In what way mDNS, decveloped
privately by a corporation, is more open than RFC 4795?

>         This introduces special semantics for the
>         local domain,[2] which is considered a problem by some members
>         of the IETF.[3]

Indeed, that's one of the problems with mDNS, like ActiveDirectory, it
hijacks the ".local" pseudo-TLD.