Points for BoF discussion by TrentLloyd(Lathiat)

So this spec has grown, and is reaching a fair bit out, but I think the following points need to be focussed

Moving avahi into main [deps libdaemon]
Determining / deciding to evaluate possible IPv4-LL solutions (zeroconf, network-manager)
- - Obviously zeroconf has been shown to have possible issues at UBZ, need to investigate actual cause and possible solutions
Shipping Avahi by Default (but disabled)
Exposing a UI to turn it on
- - How/where/what/why? UI at all? would be nice to be an easy tick option
Moving libnss-mdns into main
- - Installing by default - Shipping on by default
Configuring as many programs as possible to use Avahi, including with howl and bonjour compat layers

Various applications need to be extended to support Avahi. Good examples would be gnome-vfs (for nautilus), gaim, muine and cups. I (TrentLloyd) plan to do this work where possible for upstream.
GnomeMeeting in CVS supports service discovery, using Avahi instead of Howl with a patch by SebastienEstienne. Ubuntu cannot use howl due to various licensing problems.
service-discovery-applet : allows to quickly access zeroconf services. This applet can also be considerated as a generic GUI to add zeroconf support for client that doesn't support it yet. (eg: it can browse for Zeroconf Web servers and launch firefox with the good URL).

The zeroconf technology would be a great addition to UbuntuForSmallBusinesses and SmallBusinessServer.

The common use case is small business from 5 to 20 workstations and 1 or 2 servers.
John install his Ubuntu 4 SBS server, and create the different user accounts.
Then John wants to install the workstations, he starts the computer with a Ubuntu Cd
The install cd detects the apt-proxy (through zeroconf)
The installation is over, and Marc wants to login, the kerberos server is detected
Marc wants to write a mail, he starts evolution: smtp, imap, ldap, webcal all configured throught zeroconf
Marc wants to call its friend to tell him how great is zeroconf, he starts gnomemeeting that automatically detects asterix (Pabx) and route the call.
John's firm is getting bigger, he needs to add a new server for fault tolerance: he starts his brand new Ubuntu 4 SBS server, it detects that there is already one Ubuntu 4 SBS servers and automatically replicates its configuration.