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Reported by John Veizades/Apple

SVRLOC Minutes

Minutes of the Atlanta Services Location Working Group

This meeting started with the discussion that has started many of these
meetings, with a discussion of the solutions that exist in the area of
services location protocols.  The examples, as previously given, are the
XNS network binding protocol, AppleTalk's Name Binding Protocol and of
course the TCP/IP Resource Location Protocol.

Discussion lead to some of the problems in the propagation of request
through IP based internets.  IP based internets do allow for the
propagation of datagrams with the use of multicast groups but the
topography of the IP internet does not necessarily match the propagation
pattern of the requests which may be organizational or geographical in
nature.

The group decided to first concentrate on the local network case and
then concentrate on the problem of extending the architecture to an
arbitrary internet.

In dealing with the local network situation the group came up with the
following list of parameters that maybe of interest in the predicate
portion of look ups:

  o Name
  o Service type
  o Organization
  o Geographic location
  o Authentication
  o Next protocol (the next protocol used in finding the service)
  o Query originator
  o Where is the service in relation to where am I (delta distance) the
    predicate protocol to be used.

John Veizades and Leo McLaughlin will be looking into all of this and
posting something to the list by the next meeting.

This group will also continue to work with Mike Schwartz and the IRTF
group on resource location.

The next meeting will be at the November IETF.

Attendees

Steve Alexander          [email protected]
Karl Auerbach            [email protected]
David Borman             [email protected]
David Bridgham           [email protected]

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Gregory Bruell           [email protected]
Richard Cherry           [email protected]
Richard Cogger           [email protected]
Peter Deutsch            [email protected]
Ralph Droms              [email protected]
Alan Emtage              [email protected]
Holly Knight             [email protected]
Stev Knowles             [email protected]
John Lekashman           [email protected]
Joshua Littlefield       [email protected]
Carl Malamud             [email protected]
Leo McLaughlin           [email protected]
Bill Melohn              [email protected]
William Nowicki          [email protected]
Geir Pedersen            [email protected]
Mike Petry               [email protected]
John Veizades            [email protected]
A. Lee Wade              [email protected]
Peter de Vries           [email protected]



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