It wouldn't, though. Instead, it would collapse under the weight of IP's management capabilities and worst-in-class feature creep. Despite decades of effort by people like Stuart Cheshire, getting two computers to talk over ethernet is still orders or magnitude more difficult than getting them to talk over a thumb drive. Why would I want that for my mouse, keyboard, and display?
Don't get me wrong, I've read Cheshire's zeroconf book and I'm a big fan of zeroconf IP and mDNS, but technological solutions to these problems are a dime a dozen. Political coordination is the difficult problem and from that perspective mDNS hasn't succeeded (Windows). The network guys can't even coordinate well enough to get name resolution working and I should trust them with doing application-layer coordination competitive with USB and PCIe? Please.
It wouldn't, though. Instead, it would collapse under the weight of IP's management capabilities and worst-in-class feature creep. Despite decades of effort by people like Stuart Cheshire, getting two computers to talk over ethernet is still orders or magnitude more difficult than getting them to talk over a thumb drive. Why would I want that for my mouse, keyboard, and display?
Don't get me wrong, I've read Cheshire's zeroconf book and I'm a big fan of zeroconf IP and mDNS, but technological solutions to these problems are a dime a dozen. Political coordination is the difficult problem and from that perspective mDNS hasn't succeeded (Windows). The network guys can't even coordinate well enough to get name resolution working and I should trust them with doing application-layer coordination competitive with USB and PCIe? Please.