Network Working Group                                           J. Kempf
Request for Comments: 3082                                J. Goldschmidt
Category: Experimental                                  Sun Microsystems
                                                             March 2001


                Notification and Subscription for SLP

Status of this Memo

  This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet
  community.  It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.
  Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

  Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2001).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

  The Service Location Protocol (SLP) provides mechanisms whereby
  service agent clients can advertise and user agent clients can query
  for services.  The design is very much demand-driven, so that user
  agents only obtain service information when they specifically ask for
  it.  There exists another class of user agent applications, however,
  that requires notification when a new service appears or disappears.
  In the RFC 2608 design, these applications are forced to poll the
  network to catch changes.  In this document, we describe a protocol
  for allowing such clients to be notified when a change occurs,
  removing the need for polling.

1. Introduction

  The Service Location Protocol (SLP) [1] provides a mechanism for
  service agent (SA) clients to advertise network services and for user
  agent (UA) clients to find them.  The mechanism is demand-driven.
  UAs obtain service information by actively querying for it, and do
  not obtain any information unless they do so.  While this design
  satisfies the requirements for most applications, there are some
  applications that require more timely information about the
  appearance or disappearance in the services of interest.

  Ideally, these applications would like to be notified when a new
  service comes up or when a service disappears.  In order to obtain
  this information with SLP as described in RFC 2608, such applications
  must poll the network to periodically refresh their local cache of
  available service advertisements.



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  An example of such a client is a desktop GUI that wants to display
  network service icons as soon as they appear to provide users with an
  accurate picture of all services available to them.

  Because polling is inefficient and wasteful of network and processor
  resources, we would like to provide these applications a mechanism
  whereby they can be explicitly notified of changes.  In this
  document, we describe a scalable mechanism allowing UAs to be
  notified of changes in service availability.

2. Notation Conventions

  The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
  "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
  document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [2].

3. Terminology

  In this section, we present some additional terminology beyond that
  in [1] and [3].

  Notification - A message sent to an interested agent informing that
                 agent that a service has appeared or disappeared.

  Subscription - A request to be informed about changes in service
                 availability for a particular service type and scopes.

4. Design Considerations

  The primary design consideration in a notification protocol for SLP
  is that we would like it to exhibit the same high degree of
  scalability and robustness that the base SLP protocol exhibits.
  Notification should work in small networks with only a few SAs, as
  well as large enterprise networks with thousands of SAs and hundreds
  of DAs.  Small networks should not be required to deploy DAs in order
  to receive the benefits of notification.  We also want to assure that
  notification in large networks does not cause heavy processing loads
  to fall on any one particular SLP agent.  This requires that the task
  of notification be distributed rather than centralized, to avoid
  loading down one agent with doing all the notification work.
  Finally, we would like the notification scheme to be robust in the
  face of DA failures, just as the base SLP design is.

  An important consideration is that the UA clients obtain
  notifications of SA events in a timely fashion.  If a UA has
  subscribed to notification for a particular service type, the UA
  should receive such notification regardless of the state of
  intervening DAs.  SLP is transparent with respect to DAs supporting a



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  particular scope; that is, a UA can use any DA with a particular
  scope and expect to get the same service advertisements.
  Notifications should exhibit the same property.  Whether or not a UA
  receives a notification should not depend on the DA to which they
  happen to connect. This preserves the DAs' identity as a pure cache.

  Another goal is that the notification messages contain enough
  information about the triggering event that the UA can determine
  whether or not it is of interest in the large majority of cases
  without having to issue another SLP request a priori.  The UA may, of
  course, issue an SLP request for related reasons, but it should not
  have to issue a request to obtain more information on the event that
  triggered the notification in most cases.  This reduces the amount of
  network traffic related to the event.

  In order to simplify implementation, we would like to use similar
  mechanisms for notification in large and small networks.  The
  mechanisms are not identical, obviously, but we want to avoid having
  radically different mechanisms that require completely separate
  implementations.  Having similar mechanisms reduces the amount of
  code in UA and SA clients.

  A minor goal is to make use of existing SLP message types and
  mechanisms wherever possible.  This reduces the amount of code
  necessary to implement the notification mechanism, because much code
  can be reused between the base SLP and the notification mechanism.
  In particular, we expect to make use of the SLP extension mechanism
  in certain cases to support subscription.

5. Notification Design Description

  In order to support scalability, we split the design into two parts.
  A small network design is used when no DAs are present in the
  network.  A large network design is used in networks with DAs.  The
  following subsections describe the two designs.

5.1 Small Network Design

  In networks without DAs, UAs are notified by an SA when the SA
  initially appears, and when the SA disappears.  This allows UAs to
  know about the list of service types the SA supports.  In small
  networks, there is no centralized agent available to administer
  subscriptions for newly appearing SAs.  This rules out any kind of
  subscription design in which a UA subscribes to notifications for a
  particular service type in particular scopes of interest, because a
  newly appearing SA can't tell whether or not there are any
  subscriptions without a centralizing agent to tell it.




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  As a result, SAs perform notification when they come on line and
  prior to shutting down regardless of their scope or service type, if
  they are capable of performing notification.  This means that a UA
  receives notification of all types of changes for all scopes and
  service types, and consequently must be prepared to filter out those
  changes in which it is not interested (other scopes, other service
  types).

  The design requires SAs to perform notification by IP multicasting
  (or broadcasting in IPv4 if multicast is not available) SLP SrvReg or
  SrvDereg messages using the multicast transmit algorithm described in
  Section 9.0.  The port number for notifications is not the default
  SLP port, because that port is only accessible to privileged users on
  some operating systems, but rather the port 1847, as assigned by
  IANA.

  In IPv4, the SA performs multicast on the SLP multicast address
  (239.255.255.253, default TTL 255) and is administratively scoped in
  the same manner as SLP [4].  IPv4 UAs interested in notification join
  the multicast group 239.255.255.253 and listen on port 1847.  In
  IPv6, the multicast is performed to the scoped IPv6 addresses for the
  service type advertised, as described in [8].  The SA advertises on
  all addresses up to and including the largest multicast scope that it
  supports.  IPv6 UAs interested in notification join the multicast
  groups corresponding to the multicast scopes and service type in
  which they are interested and listen on port 1847.  For example, an
  IPv6 UA that has access to site local scope and is interested in a
  service type whose hash is 42, calculated according to the algorithm
  in [8], joins the groups FF01:0:0:0:0:0:10042 through
  FF05:0:0:0:0:0:10042.

5.2 Large Network Design

  In networks with DAs, a DA supporting a particular scope can act as
  an intermediary for administering UA subscriptions.  A subscription
  consists of a service type and a collection of scopes.  A UA
  interested in being notified about changes in a particular service
  type attaches the Subscribe extension to a SrvRqst message sent to
  the DA.  The DA obtains multicast group addresses for notification
  based on the algorithm described in Section 8.0 and puts them into a
  NotifyAt extension which it attaches to the SrvRply.  The UA listens
  on the group addresses in the reply for notifications.

  When a new subscription comes in, existing SAs are informed about the
  subscription using the following procedure.  The DA compares the
  service type and scopes in the new subscription against a list of
  existing subscriptions.  If no previous subscription has the same
  service type and scopes, the DA MUST multicast a DAAdvert, using the



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  multicast transmit algorithm described in Section 9.0, and MUST
  include the NotifyAt extension with the multicast group addresses for
  notification.  If an existing subscription covers the same service
  type and scopes as the new subscription, the DA MUST NOT multicast a
  DAAdvert.

  A DA MUST keep track of subscriptions it has arranged as well as
  subscriptions arranged by other DAs in any scopes with which the DA
  is configured.  To avoid multiple multicast NotifyAt messages, a DA
  MUST wait a random amount of time, uniformly distributed between 0
  and 3 seconds before sending the multicast DAAdvert with NotifyAt.
  During this period, the DA MUST listen for NotifyAt messages that
  match the one from the new subscription.  If a matching NotifyAt is
  detected, the DA MUST not multicast.

  When a new SA registers with a DA that has existing subscriptions,
  the new SA is informed of notifications it should perform using the
  following procedure.  If the service type and scopes in the new SA's
  SrvReg messages match an existing subscription, a NotifyAt containing
  the multicast addresses for notification MUST be included in the
  SrvAck.  If the SA doesn't support notification, it simply ignores
  the extension.  If the service type and scopes in the new SA's SrvReg
  do not match any existing subscriptions, the DA MUST NOT include a
  NotifyAt.

  The DA itself MUST also perform notification, according to the
  multicast transmit algorithm, when a service advertisement times out.
  Time-out of a service advertisement results in the DA multicasting a
  SrvDereg for the deregistered URL.  This allows interested UAs to be
  informed of the service advertisement's demise even if the SA has
  disappeared without deregistering.  A DA MUST NOT perform
  notification when it receives a SrvReg from an SA, however, that is
  the job of the SA.

  As in small networks, notification is performed primarily by SAs.  If
  an SA receives a DAAdvert or SrvAck with a NotifyAt extension and the
  following conditions are met:

          1. The SA supports notification.

          2. The SA's service type matches the service type in the
             NotifyAt extension.

          3. The SA's scopes match one of the scopes of the NotifyAt
             extension.






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  then the SA saves the multicast addresses that correspond to the
  scopes and service types it supports.  The SA MUST perform
  notification immediately after the SA has performed the SrvReg or
  SrvDereg with the DA.  An SA that has detected a DA in its scopes
  MUST NOT multicast any notifications unless it receives a NotifyAt
  extension in a SrvAck with service type and scopes matching the SA's
  service type and scopes.

6. Subscribe Extension

  The Subscribe extension has the following format:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |    Extension Type = 0x0004    |        Extension Length       |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Ex. Len. (ct) | Abs. Type Fl. |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

  The scope list and service type of the extension are taken from the
  accompanying SrvRqst.  The abstract type flag indicates whether the
  UA is interested in hearing from all SAs advertising concrete
  instances of an abstract type [3], and is only of interest if the
  service type in the SrvRqst is a concrete type.  If the flag is 1,
  the UA is interested in hearing from all SAs advertising concrete
  types having the same abstract type as the type of the SrvRqst.  If
  the flag is 0, the UA is only interested in hearing from SAs
  supporting the particular concrete type in the SrvRqst.  If the
  service type in the accompanying SrvRqst is not a concrete type, the
  flag is ignored.

7. NotifyAt Extension

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |    Extension Type = 0x0005    |        Extension Length       |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | Ext. Len (ct) |  Subscription Lifetime        |SGL List Len.  \
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |SGL L. Len (ct)|       Scope/Group List                        \
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  Length of Service Type Name  |        Service Type Name      \
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+






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  The service type name is in the same format as in the SrvRqst.  The
  scope/group list is a list of scope names and multicast group
  addresses.  The following ABNF [5] syntax describes the list:

       sglist          = sgitem / sgitem "," sglist
       sgitem          = scope-name ":" ip-addr
       ip-addr         = ipv4-number | ipv6-number
       scope-name      =  ; See RFC 2608 for the format of scope names.
       ipv4-number     =  1*3DIGIT 3("." 1*3DIGIT)
       ipv6-number     = ;See RFC 2373 [9] Section 2.2

  An example of a scope/group list for IPv4 is:

       eng:239.255.255.42,corp:239.255.255.43

  An example of a scope/group listfor IPv6 is:

       eng:FF02:0:0:0:0:0:1:1042,corp:FF03:0:0:0:0:0:1:1042

  The scope/group list gives the multicast addresses to use for
  notifications involving the service type for the given scopes.

  The service type name can be a simple type name, an abstract type
  name, or a concrete type name.  If the name is an abstract type name,
  all SAs advertising the abstract type MUST notify.  If the name is a
  concrete or simple type name, ONLY those SAs advertising the simple
  or concrete type MUST notify, others MUST NOT notify.  A DA that
  receives a subscription for a concrete type with the abstract type
  flag set, MUST include the abstract type name in all the NotifyAt
  messages it sends.  If the DA receives a subscription for a concrete
  type with the abstract type flag not set, the DA MUST NOT include the
  abstract type, but rather MUST include the concrete type name.

  There are three cases in which an agent may receive a NotifyAt
  extension: in a SrvRply returned to a UA, in a multicast DAAdvert,
  and in a SrvAck returned to an SA.  The three subsections below
  describe the response in each of these cases.

7.1 NotifyAt received with SrvRply

  When a UA sends a SrvRqst with a Subscribe extension, the DA responds
  with a SrvRply including a NotifyAt.  The DA MUST NOT unicast a
  NotifyAt to a UA with any other message and MUST NOT send a NotifyAt
  unless a SrvRqst with a Subscribe extension was received.

  The UA responds by setting up a multicast listener to the group
  addresses included in the extension on the SLP notification port
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  subscription assigned by the DA, and reissue a  subscription before
  the lifetime expires.

7.2 NotifyAt received with Multicast DAAdvert

  The DA multicasts a NotifyAt with a DAAdvert using the multicast
  transmit algorithm when a UA has requested notification and the
  scopes and service type in the subscription were not previously seen.
  This message informs existing SAs having the service type and scopes
  in the announcement that they should multicast notifications when
  they shut down.

  A receiving SA participating in notification responds by noting the
  multicast address if the service type and scopes match.  When the SA
  is about to go down, the SA MUST first unicast a SrvDereg without
  attribute tag list to its DAs (as per standard SLP), then it MUST
  multicast the same SrvDereg message according to the multicast
  transmit algorithm.  The SA MUST cease performing notification when
  the subscription lifetime expires, unless a subsequent NotifyAt is
  received prolonging the subscription.

  A UA that is performing passive DA detection will naturally also
  receive the extension, but the UA SHOULD ignore the extension.

7.3 NotifyAt received with SrvAck

  An SA can receive a NotifyAt with a SrvAck when it first comes up and
  registers itself with a DA.  If the DA has any subscriptions from UAs
  for the service type and scopes represented by the SA, it MUST return
  a NotifyAt with the SrvAck.

  The SA upon receiving the NotifyAt immediately multicasts the same
  SrvReg it sent to the DA, according to the multicast transmit
  algorithm.  The SA MUST only perform the multicast algorithm once,
  even if it registers with more than one DA and receives the NotifyAt
  in reply from more than one.  Prior to its demise and after
  deregistering with a DA, the SA MUST notify with the same SrvDereg,
  as described in Section 7.2.

8. Multicast Address Allocation

  Enterprise networks that allow SLP notification SHOULD deploy the
  Multicast Address Allocation Architecture (MAAA) including
  administratively scoped multicast and Multicast Address Dynamic
  Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP) [6].

  If it is not possible to obtain a multicast address for use in SLP
  notifications, the SLP multicast address is used.



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  If the MAAA infrastructure is deployed, DAs and SAs obtain their
  scope configuration from MADCAP, because the SLP scopes are the same
  as the MADCAP scopes.  Each SLP scope MUST correspond to a multicast
  scope name, in the sense of [6].  In such a case, a DA allocates,
  using MADCAP, a new multicast group address for each new service
  type/scope pair to which a UA subscribes.  The allocation is made by
  MADCAP from the multicast address range for the scope.  In this way,
  only those UAs interested in the service type and scopes in the
  subscription receive the multicast notification.  The DA sets up the
  lease on the multicast address to correspond with the duration of the
  subscription.  If the MADCAP server runs out of addresses, the SLP
  multicast group is used as a last resort.

  For example, if the multicast scope has an address range of 239.1.0.0
  through 239.1.255.255, the notification group address for service
  type X in scope A could be 239.1.0.42 and for service type Y in scope
  B could be 239.1.42.42.

9. Multicast Transmit Algorithm

  The DA and SAs use a multicast transmit algorithm similar to that
  used for discovering services in SLP, described in RFC 2608 [1],
  except the agent performing the notification doesn't wait for
  replies.  The agent performing the notification transmits a
  notification message repeatedly over a period of 15 seconds, backing
  off exponentially on the duration of the time interval between the
  multicasts.  The rationale for this algorithm is to limit the
  duration and scope of the multicast announcement while still
  repeating the announcement enough times to increase the probability
  that one message gets through.

  For an SA, a notification message is either a SrvReg or a SrvDereg
  message, depending on whether the SA is registering a new service or
  deregistering a service.  When a new service is registered, the
  SrvReg message MUST have the fresh bit set in the SLP header.  The
  entire list of attributes for the service SHOULD be included.  The
  SrvDereg message MUST NOT include an attribute tag list.
  Notifications MUST NOT be transmitted at any other time, to minimize
  multicast traffic.

  Since a SrvReg could contain attribute lists of arbitrary length, the
  message could potentially overflow the packet MTU for UDP.  If an
  attribute list causes a packet MTU overflow, the SA MUST set the
  overflow bit in the SLP header.  The attribute list in the
  notification message MUST be formatted so that a UA can use the
  attributes even if an overflow occurs.  If a UA needs more attributes
  than are transmitted in the notification message, it can contact the
  SA (if no DA is present) or the DA for the attributes it needs.



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  A DA multicasts a DAAdvert when a subscription comes in containing a
  service type and scopes that do not match any on the DA's list of
  known subscriptions.  The same algorithm MUST be used.  If the
  combination of the DA attributes and the NotifyAt message cause the
  DAAdvert to overflow a UDP packet, DA attributes MUST be truncated to
  allow the NotifyAt to fit and the overflow bit MUST be set in the
  header.  An SA knows that the purpose of the message is to inform it
  of a new subscription rather than for passive advertisement, because
  of the extension, and it can therefore ignore the DA attribute list
  field if the overflow bit is set in the header.  A DA also transmits
  a SrvDereg message when a service advertisement is deregistered due
  to timeout, following the same rules as for an SA.

10.0 DA Disappearance

  Robustness to DA failure is an important goal of the design.  When a
  DA disappears due to unforeseen circumstances, subscription
  information from UAs is lost.  UAs continue to get notifications from
  existing SAs.  However, new SAs will not be informed of the
  subscription unless other DAs also have the subscription information.
  Because a UA may not discover a new DA until it tries to perform an
  active request, the UA could potentially miss the appearance of new
  services.  For this reason, UAs that are concerned about receiving
  notification of absolutely every service that appears SHOULD issue
  subscriptions to every newly discovered DA that supports the scopes
  it supports.  Similarly, if a DA disappears through controlled
  shutdown, a UA performing passive discovery can detect the shutdown
  and reissue the subscription to an alternate DA.

  On the SA side, when a DA goes down, existing SAs continue to notify
  until the subscription expires.  Before ceasing to notify, an SA MUST
  determine whether the DA is still active and, if not, verify with
  another DA whether the subscription has been extended.  If no other
  DA is available, the SA MUST ignore the subscription expiration time
  and continue notifying until a new DA is discovered.  When a new DA
  is discovered the SA must send a new SrvReg to the DA, according to
  RFC 2608 [1].  The replying SrvAck contains a NotifyAt extension if
  the UA has renewed its subscription with the DA.  If the SrvAck does
  not contain a NotifyAt message the SA MUST continue to notify until
  the subscription expires.  If a UA is interested in continuing the
  notification, it renews the subscription with the new DA prior to the
  expiration  of the old one, and so the SA is informed to continue
  notifying.








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  Note that this procedure still does not inform SAs that come up
  between the time a newly booted DA comes up and the time the UA has
  renewed its subscription with the newly booted DA.  If this situation
  is of concern, multiple DAs can be used to assure that all
  subscriptions are covered when a DA goes down.

11.  Network Administration Considerations

  In SLP networks with DAs as described in RFC 2608, the only multicast
  is the SrvRqst for DAAdverts performed during active DA discovery,
  and unsolicited DAAdverts sent periodically by the DA for passive
  discovery.  There is no multicast involved in UA queries or SA
  registrations.  This allows network administrators to set up DAs for
  a particular collection of IP subnets and confine all service
  discovery traffic to unicast between the SA and UA clients and the
  DA.  Administratively scoped multicast can additionally be used to
  limit the extent of active DA discovery and passive DA advertising.
  The amount of multicast involved is not high and DHCP DA and scope
  configuration can be used to limit which DAs a particular UA or SA
  client sees, or to inhibit multicast entirely so that UAs and SAs
  only use configured DAs.

  With notification, however, multicast traffic involving events in SAs
  becomes available.  Because DAs request multicast addresses based on
  scope and service type, the multicast associated with particular
  events should only propagate to those subnets in which UAs and SAs of
  the same scope are interacting.  Routers should be configured with
  administrative multicast scoping to limit multicast.  If DAs are not
  deployed (or the MAAA is not deployed), however, the amount of
  multicast on the SLP multicast address when notifications are being
  used could quickly become very large.  Therefore, it is crucial that
  DAs supporting notification be deployed in large networks where UA
  clients are interested in notification.

12. Security Considerations

  The SrvReg and SrvDereg messages contain authentication blocks for
  all SLP SPIs supported by the DAs with which the SA registers.  Since
  these SPIs are necessarily the same as those that UAs can verify, a
  UA receiving a multicast notification is in a position to verify the
  notification.  It does so by selecting the authentication block or
  blocks that it can verify.  If authentication fails, either due to
  lack of an authentication block, or lack of the proper SPI, the UA
  simply discards the notification.  In a network without DAs, the SPIs
  of the UA and SA must also match.






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13. IANA Considerations

  The SLP Notification services use the IANA-assigned port number of
  1847.  The SLP extension identifiers assigned by IANA are 0x0004 for
  Subscribe and 0x0005 for NotifyAt.

14. Acknowledgements

  The authors would like to thank Charles Perkins, of Nokia, and Erik
  Guttman and Jonathan Wood, of Sun Microsystems, for their stimulating
  discussion and suggestions during the initial phases of the
  subscription/notification design.  We would also like to thank Erik
  for his intense scrutiny of the specification during the later
  phases.  His comments were instrumental in refining the design.
  Shivaun Albright, of HP, motivated simplification of the protocol to
  focus on initial registration and deregistration only.  Vaishali
  Mithbaokar implemented the simplified protocol.

15. References

  [1] Guttman, E., Perkins, C., Veizades, J. and M. Day, "Service
      Location Protocol", RFC 2608, July 1999.

  [2] Bradner, S., "Key Words for Use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement
      Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

  [3] Guttman, E., Perkins, C. and J. Kempf, "Service Templates and
      service: Schemes", RFC 2609, July 1999.

  [4] Meyer, D., "Administratively Scoped IP Multicast", RFC 2365, July
      1998.

  [5] Crocker, D. and P. Overell, "Augmented BNF for Syntax
      Specifications: ABNF", RFC 2234, November 1997.

  [6] Hanna, S., Patel,B. and M. Shah, "Multicast Address Dynamic
      Client Allocation Protocol (MADCAP)", RFC 2730, December 1999.

  [7] http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/multicast-addresses

  [8] Guttman, E., "Service Location Protocol Modifications for IPv6",
      Work in Progress.

  [9] Hinden, R. and S. Deering, "IP Version 6 Addressing
      Architecture", RFC 2375, July 1997.






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16. Author's Addresses

  James Kempf
  Sun Microsystems
  UMPK15-214
  901 San Antonio Rd.
  Palo Alto, CA 94040
  USA

  Phone:    +1 650 786 5890
  EMail:    [email protected]


  Jason Goldschmidt
  Sun Microsystems
  UMPK17-202
  901 San Antonio Rd.
  Palo Alto, CA 94040
  USA

  Phone: +1 650 786 3502
  EMail: [email protected]





























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