Re: GUPnP and Zones

[Mark Ryan <mark d ryan linux intel com>]

Hi Jussi,

> I don't think it would be bad if the default stayed as it is: apps
> would have to enable the whitelisting functionality explicitly instead
> of it being the default -- I think this is what most apps will want
> anyway.
> At the very least we should make sure this does break the API if we
> change the default: otherwise apps will just silently stop working
> when distros upgrade gupnp.

Agreed.  Let's not change the defaults for GUPnP.  We may however chose 
to use a different, and more secure, set of defaults for dLeyna.  There 
aren't any dLeyna apps yet so we won't break anything.

> > There is of course a caveat for dLeyna clients here.  Apps that used the
> > dLeyna components would share the same set of settings for accessing
> > networks.
>
> I assume you don't mean the gupnp whitelists would be per-application,
> but are talking about the case where one dleyna-app decides that it
> really wants to see all the mediaservers regardless of whitelists, and
> as a result all the dleyna-using apps end up seeing them? This sounds
> fine to me.

Yes.  This is exactly what I meant.

Best Regards,

Mark