Croquet uses a dedicated "meeting point url" (which is driven by a tiny
server applet) to register and connect people joining the party.
Alternatively, it can use udp broadcast if you are in a LAN.

Cheers,
  - Andreas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org 
> [mailto:squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On 
> Behalf Of tblanchard at mac.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 10:35 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [ANN] VNC 0.1a on SqueakMap
> 
> 
> 
> On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 08:34  PM, Andreas Raab wrote:
> > The biggest pain is the setup - you have to get a badge and
> > type the IP adresses of the participants (so don't try this 
> through a
> > NAT or any other firewall) but it could be changed to use a similar
> > rendevous mechanism that Croquet uses.
> >
> 
> That makes me want to ask - what is the rendezvous mechanism in 
> Croquet?  Is it the same as the discovery mechanism that Apple is 
> calling Rendezvous?
> 
> Just curious - as this will be a more and more important 
> protocol since 
> its being added to all sorts of things like printers and such.
> 
> Such a protocol should have a Squeak implementation.
> 
>