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====History==== In 1997 [[Stuart Cheshire]] proposed adapting Apple's mature [[Name Binding Protocol]] to IP networks to address the lack of service discovery capability.<ref>{{Citation | url = http://www.stuartcheshire.org/rants/NBPIP.html | title = Name Binding Protocol over IP | type = rant | first = Stuart | last = Cheshire | author-link = Stuart Cheshire}}{{self-published-inline|date=May 2013}}</ref> Cheshire subsequently joined Apple and authored [[IETF]] draft proposals for mDNS and DNS-based Service Discovery, supporting the transition from AppleTalk to IP networking. In 2002, Apple announced an implementation of both protocols under the name Rendezvous<ref>{{Citation | title = Zero conf | url = http://www.zeroconf.org/}}{{self-published-inline|date=March 2020}}</ref> (later renamed Bonjour). It was first included in [[Mac OS X 10.2]], replacing the [[Service Location Protocol]] (SLP) used in [[Mac OS X 10.1|10.1]].{{Citation needed|date=May 2013}} In 2013, the proposals were ratified as {{IETF RFC|6762}}<ref>{{cite IETF |author1=S. Cheshire |author2=M. Krochmal |publisher=[[IETF]] |title=Multicast DNS |rfc=6762 |date=February 2013}}</ref> and {{IETF RFC|6763}}.<ref>{{cite IETF |author1=S. Cheshire |author2=M. Krochmal |publisher=[[IETF]] |title=DNS-Based Service Discovery |rfc=6763 |date=February 2013}}</ref>
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