Rendezvous

• Automated networking service
• Commercial name for several sub-services

• Zeroconf: automated IP configuration service
• mDNS: name resolution service
• DNS-SD: service for announcing available services

• Rendezvous integrated in Mac OS X and recent GNU/Linux distributions
• Zeroconf integrated in Windows systems since Windows 98
• Integrated within a growing number of network devices (printers, webcams, etc)