CURRENT MEETING REPORT
Reported by John Veizades, @Home Network
Minutes of the Service Location Working
Group (svrloc)
The agenda for the Service Location Working Group meeting was as follows:
Erik Guttman presented a detailed list of
differences between the last two drafts. These differences were
driven by suggestions from the two area directors in preparation
for movement to proposed standard. Frank Kastenholz corrected
the understanding of some of his comments. In particular to the
use of the "x-" prefix to attributes when the attributes
were being used in an unstandardized experimental fashion.
Harald Alvestrand also corrected the service
locations group understanding of the standardization of URL schemes.
It was felt that the standardization process for URLs was too
cumbersome for the needs of the working group. Standardization
of the service location schemes will be handled under the "service:"
scheme. This is to say that schemes within service location will
start "service:" followed by the service location scheme.
These schemes may have the same value as the general URL scheme.
For instance, the service location scheme for a HTTP server would
be "service:http:" followed by the service location
defined semantics.
There will be a new Internet-Draft published
in the coming week to cover these changes. This draft will be
presented as a IETF last call.
The following items were suggested as a
list of charter items for the future. These are listed in priority
order with dates for completion.
1. Complete definition of the following schemes-June 1995
2. Define service location over IPv6-June
1995
3. Develop a scheme template document-June
1995
4. Define an authentication mechanism for
service location-December 1995
5. How to do Service Location remote to
your home network and to the local network-March 1997
6. Define a global service location mechanism-July
1997
7. Define extensions for Service Location
over other network protocols-June 1995
There was some concern about the use of
the enum type for character set encoding. Harald insured us that
this use was correct.
Service location over IPv6 will be using
exactly the same document as the IPv4 Service Location protocol
and document difference between the two specification. The following
is the list of required changes:
John Veizades will submit the Internet-Drafts
for the mailbox and mail relay schemes to the list by the next
meeting. He will also submit the IPv6 draft by the next meeting.
Erik Guttman will submit the scheme template document to the list
by the next meeting.
The working group chair will arrange to make a presentation of this protocol to the IPv6 Working Group at the next IETF.