Meta-server for global targets

Created by: stephanemagnenat

The recent addition of Zeroconf added support for discovering Aseba targets in the local network.

It would be nice to have a similar solution for global targets on Internet. This would be useful, for instance for events such as R2T2. An option could be added to the switch to advertise the targets globally.

This would require the presence of a global meta-server, as it is the case for most Internet-based video games. It is not very hard to do, but raises security, maintenance, financing and administration issues.

Note that there might already exist (almost) ready-to-use open-source solutions. Moreover, in the early days of Globulation 2, I implemented such a server over the open IRC network, which is an approach that could also work for us here.