Service Location Protocol (svrloc)

Charter

Chair(s):
     John Veizades, veizades@apple.com

Mailing Lists:
     General Discussion:  srv-location@apple.com
     To Subscribe:  srv-location-request@apple.com
     Archive:  pub/srv-location/svr-loc-archive

Description of Working Group:

     The Service Location Working Group is chartered to investigate
     protocols to find and bind to service entities in a distributed
     internetworked environment.  Issues that must be addressed are
     how such a protocol would interoperate with existing directory
     based services location protocols.  Protocols that would be
     designed by this group would be viewed as an adjunct to
     directory service protocols.  These protocols would be able to
     provide a bridge between directory services and current schemes
     for service location.

     The nature of the services location problem is investigative in
     principle.  There is no mandate that a protocol should be
     drafted as part of this process.  It is the mandate of this
     group to understand the operation of services location and then
     determine the correct action in their view whether it be to use
     current protocols to suggest a services location architecture
     or to design a new protocol to compliment current
     architectures.

Goals and Milestones:

Done       Open discussion and determine if a Working Group should be
           formed.

Done       Continue discussion trying to refine the problem statement
           and possible resolutions.

Jul 1991   Do we take the RFC track or do we write a report on our
           conclusion and leave it at that?



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