Service Location Working Group Erik Guttman
INTERNET DRAFT Sun Microsystems, Inc
11 October 1999
The Service Agent Service Type
draft-guttman-svrloc-sa-scheme-00.txt
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Abstract
This document describes the Service Agent service type. Service
Agents are one of three types of agents used in the Service Location
Protocol, Version 2 [1]. The Service Agent advertises all services
on a given host which have been enabled to use SLPv2.
1. Introduction
This document provides a Service Template for Service Agents.
Service templates are defined in [2].
SLPv2 may be used to discover Service Agents. This template defines
the attributes which SLP User Agents may use to select the
appropriate service agent for its needs.
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2. The "service agent" Service Type
Name of Submitter = "Erik Guttman" <erik.guttman@sun.com>
Language of Template = en
Security Considerations = See section 3, below.
Template Text:
-------------------------template begins here-----------------------
template-type=service-agent
template-version=0.1
lang=en
template-description=
This defines the service-agent service type. This service is
used by SLPv2 User Agents to do service discovery in the absense
of SLPv2 Directory Agents. By discovering all SLPv2 Service
Agents, the User Agents know both their locations (so they may
send unicast requests to them) and the scopes they support.
Service Agent discovery and the use of service:service-agent
URLs is defined in [1].
template-url-syntax=
url-path= ; The URL of the service agent. Defined in [1].
service-type=string M L
; The service types advertised by the Service Agent
--------------------------template ends here------------------------
3. Security Considerations
Authentication of Service Agent URLs is possible within the context
of SLPv2 [1]. Service Agent URLs may be used by SLPv2 UAs. The
use of the service information included in this template allows UAs
to select a subset of all SLPv2 SAs. If SLPv2 security mechanisms
are not used, the UAs will have no guarantee these services actually
conform to the selected subset.
References:
[1] E. Guttman, C. Perkins, J. Veizades, M. Day. Service Location
Protocol. RFC 2608, June 1999.
[2] E. Guttman, C. Perkins, J. Kempf, Service Templates and service:
URLs. RFC 2609, June 1999.
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Author Contact Information:
Erik Guttman
Sun Microsystems
Eichhoelzelstr. 7
74915 Waibstadt Germany
Erik.Guttman@sun.com
+49 7263 911 701
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