[Kde-hardware-devel] More discussion on the UPnP decision

[Leandro Melo de Sales]

Hello guys, I'm very glad to get to all of you in this e-mail, finally!
  I'm sending this e-mail because I'd like to discuss more about the use of
the UPnP stack in the KDE projects. As some of you already know, me, as the
BRisa Project Manager and a group of some developers are implementing a UPnP
stack in Qt  called BRisa UPnP Framework. I have recently found the project
HUPnP at the same time you guys were talking about this in this list but
unfortunatelly I was very busy with other stuff. We are developing the BRisa
project in partnership with Nokia Institute of Technology [1] and the
Federal University of Campina Grande at the Embedded Systems and Pervasive
Laboratory [2], both in Brazil, with a goal of make a powerful
implementation of a UPnP stack in Qt.
  We started the implementation in the middle of the last year after some
discussion with Kate Alhola (Nokia/Maemo project manager) in the ELC
(Embedded Linux Conferece) 2009. Recently we have released the first, but a
complete version, of a UPnP stack, which is available at [3] and it was
based on our mature python version of a UPnP stack. In fact, we have being
working with UPnP stuff since 2005 and many issues with the UPnP specs has
being studies etc. Now, after a great efforts from many developers, we have
the complete stack available in Qt with a strong goal of providing a native
UPnP stack implementation in three main programming languages: Qt, Python
and Java, but with a unique programming language API.
  I'm glad to say that we are currently supporting not only windows, linux
and mac, but also maemo platform and with the targets for MeeGo Platform (a
new mobile platform built as the result of a merging of maemo platform, from
nokia, and moblin, from Intel).
  This is why I'm writting to all of you, unfortunatelly only now. I'm
currently at the Embedded Linux Conference 2010, where I gave a talk about
our project, but most importantly, also in the Linux Collaboration Summit
(the conference merged in one they), I had opportunity to talk to some guys
from Nokia and Qt Framework to work in collaboration with them in this
initiative to make a unique and powerful UPnP stack in Qt.
   It is in this moment where I'd like a little from the attention of all of
you guys. I'd like  to discuss the possibility of integrate Qt-BRisa and
HUPnP in just one project where we can collaborate and make a decent UPnP
implementation. I have being also talking to Bart about the possibility of
integrating Qt-BRisa in the KIO and also, as a representative of the
research field (as the university) too, we have being working on some
improvements of the UPnP specifications, mainly in the area of security
issues, such as authentication and authorization mechanism. In this field,
we have recently publish an article that talked about a possible solution on
this and as a result we have gained the best paper award of the conference.

Thank you very much and I'm waiting feedback from all of you.

Best regards,
Leandro.

[1] http://www.indt.org.br
[2] http://embedded.ufcg.edu.br/indexen.html
[3] http://garage.maemo.org/

-- 
Leandro Melo de Sales
Professor in Computer Science at Federal University of Alagoas, Brazil
Pervasive and Embedded Computing Laboratory, UFCG
PhD candidate in Computer Science at UFCG

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