Re: [9front] 9p.zone: Public 9P Registry Services

[Stanley Lieber <sl@stanleylieber.com>]

On January 25, 2021 6:50:07 AM EST, sirjofri+ml-9front@sirjofri.de wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>we haven't announced it here, I believe, so here it is:
>
>9p.zone is a public registry service for 9p services, OS agnostic.
>This means, it works for Plan 9, 9front, inferno, basically all 9p
>capable systems can use the registry.  The project is public, so it's
>meant for public services and everyone can announce their services in
>this registry.
>
>While the center of 9p.zone is the registry itself (CORE services), we
>also plan to do other services as well (called EXTRA services).  This
>services should help others to build great 9p stuff for the community,
>without the need to do everything.  For example, we plan to build
>public auth services for free that can be used as a SSO service for
>other 9p services built by YOU.
>
>Furthermore, the old gridchat (from 9gridchan.org, which is basically
>shut down) is also inside this domain (chat.9p.zone).  The whole
>9p.zone will become a new grid system that's free and public.
>
>More information about the registry is available via http://9p.zone .
>Feel free to contribute your public services.
>
>
>sirjofri
>
>

this is cool!

suggestion: the main page should explain clearly how to extract information from the registry.

sl