RFC 3832 on Remote Service Discovery in the Service Location Protocol (SLP) via DNS SRV

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        RFC 3832

        Title:      Remote Service Discovery in the
                    Service Location Protocol (SLP) via DNS SRV
        Author(s):  W. Zhao, H. Schulzrinne, E. Guttman, C. Bisdikian,
                    W. Jerome
        Status:     Experimental
        Date:       July 2004
        Mailbox:    zwb@cs.columbia.edu, hgs@cs.columbia.edu,
                    Erik.Guttman@sun.com, bisdik@us.ibm.com,
                    wfj@us.ibm.com
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 15602
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None

        I-D Tag:    draft-zhao-slp-remote-da-discovery-06.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3832.txt

Remote service discovery refers to discovering desired services in
given remote (i.e., non-local) DNS domains.  This document describes
remote service discovery in the Service Location Protocol (SLP) via
DNS SRV.  It defines the DNS SRV Resource Records for SLP Directory
Agent services, discusses various issues in using SLP and DNS SRV
together for remote service discovery, and gives the steps for
discovering desired services in remote DNS domains.

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