[Help-gnu-arch] RFC 1740 Support

[Paul Snively]

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Gentlemen,

A friend and colleague, Dave Harr, and I are discussing how we might 
contribute to tla, which we like a lot. One area that immediately 
occurred to us was to somehow integrated support for RFC 1740 into the 
code. However, it's not apparent where the appropriate point in the 
code to do such an integration would be. Since RFC 1740 concerns itself 
with encoding and decoding of files, it would seem that some small set 
of bottleneck functions that deal with opening, closing, reading, and 
writing files, whether through the hackerlab functions or libneon 
functions, would be appropriate.

We would also like to add archive discovery features using ZeroConf. 
The idea, of course, is to make it possible for a group of hackers to 
show up somewhere with their WiFi laptops and automagically have their 
global namespace extended. To do this, we propose to use Apple's open 
source Rendezvous code, available at 
<http://developer.apple.com/darwin/projects/rendezvous>. Any 
suggestions as to where to look to hook this support in would also be 
most welcome.

Once again, thanks for the great work on the arch implementations, and 
we look forward to contributing however we can,

Paul Snively
<mailto:address@hidden>
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