CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by John Veizades/FTP Minutes of the Service Location Protocol Working Group (SVRLOC) As always, we started with a brief overview of the protocol, what we are trying to do, why we are trying to do it and how we are going to do it. We reviewed the major additions to the current draft of the protocol specification: o Scope - Each DA has a list of scopes - Services register with a DA that supports the scope they are interested in - DAs know about each other's scope o Locale and ISO 639 o Multiple addresses per service instance There was discussion of how the protocol scales and how far it is designed to scale. It is intended to scale up to a campus. The scope corresponds to a leaf in the naming service. It is not intended to tell you about all the services in the Internet. Some kind of netfind could be built once the attributes for a particular service are standardized. There must be an understanding of how this could help information services. Recommendations were made for additions to the protocol. A section on deployment of this protocol should be added. A protocol overview explaining how it can be applied to the specific problems found in the Internet is needed. The ConneXions article discusses this and it was suggested that this article be published as a companion document. A relationship statement to DHCP and other autoconfiguration protocols should be added. A statement is needed that explains how this protocol works in relationship to protocols like Mobile IP. A paragraph explaining how this protocol interacts with DNS should also be added. Attendees Nashwa Abdel-Baki nashwa@frcu.eun.eg Juha-Pekka Ahopelto juha-pekka.ahopelto@ntc.nokia.com Kannan Alagappan kannan@sejour.lkg.dec.com Steve Alexander stevea@lachman.com Luc Boulianne lucb@bunyip.com Paul Ciarfella ciarfella@took.lkg.dec.com David Crocker dcrocker@mordor.stanford.edu Glen Daniels gub@elf.com Dante Delucia dante@usc.edu Ian Duncan id@cc.mcgill.ca William Gilliam wag@cup.hp.com Art Harkin ash@cup.hp.com Marc Hasson marc@mentat.com Scott Hinnrichs smh@netserv.com Alex Hopmann alex.hopmann@resnova.com Scott Kaplan scott@wco.ftp.com Andrew Knutsen andrewk@sco.com Ted Kuo tik@vnet.ibm.com Barry Leiner leiner@nsipo.nasa.gov Ben Levy seven@ftp.com Joshua Littlefield josh@cayman.com Marjo Mercado marjo@cup.hp.com Stephen Nahm sxn@sun.com Brad Parker brad@fcr.com John Romkey romkey@elf.com Walter Stickle wls@ftp.com Akihiro Tominaga tomy@sfc.wide.ad.jp Phil Trubey ptrubey@netcom.com Randy Turner rturner@qms.com John Veizades veizades@wco.ftp.com Dan Wood dwood@bbn.com