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- This is only a rough draft - Megan 04/15/92
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- The Services Location Working Group met and the following was discussed.
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- Scott Kaplan of FTP Software made a presentation of an architecture
- proposal he has been working on. Some of the principals that have been
- made in the design of this protocol have been that the end nodes (these are
- the nodes searching for services) would have no user interface
- configuration. This means that the information that is reported in the
- user interface of the end node is information that is contained in the
- network, in the services access points or in surrogates for these access
- points. Other protocol design principals are that a data representation
- language can be borrowed or stolen, that some RPC mechanism can also be
- borrowed. Some issues that were brought up in the discussion of the
- protocol is that this protocol is not SNMP even though there are
- similarities between the two protocols (both protocols can transmit a list
- of attributes that are supported by the service provider). This protocol
- should deal with both the dentist office case (plug and play IP in a small
- unconnected network) as well in a well connected global internet. The
- protocol design document will be refined and posted to the mailing list.
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- Issues of multilingual support will be worked on by John Veizades and will
- be presented at the next working group meeting in Boston. It is assumed
- that there is some character encoding standard that can be used for this
- issue.
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- There will be a BOF session on this topic Thursday night of InterOp
- Washington.
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- Scott and John met with the IRTF working group on resource location. There
- are many similar issues in the work that this group is trying to solve.
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- Submitted by
- John Veizades
- working group chair
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