Service Location Protocol (svrloc)
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 Charter 
 
 Current status: active working group
 
 Chair(s):
     John Veizades  <veizades@wco.ftp.com>
     Scott Kaplan  <scott@wco.ftp.com>
 
 Service Applications Area Director(s) 
     Dave Crocker  <dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu>
 
 Mailing lists: 
     General Discussion:srv-location@ftp.com
     To Subscribe:      srv-location-request@ftp.com
     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 service 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 service 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 service location and then determine the correct action in their view
whether it be to use current protocols to suggest a service location
architecture or to design a new protocol to compliment current architectures.

	  

 Internet-Drafts:

Posted Revised       I-D Title  <Filename>
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 Oct 93 Mar 94  <draft-ietf-svrloc-protocol-03.txt> 
                Service Location Protocol