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Service Templates and Service: Schemes

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Network Working Group                                        E. Guttman
Request for Comments: 2609                                   C. Perkins
Updates: 2165                                                  J. Kempf
Category: Standards Track                              Sun Microsystems
                                                              June 1999


                 Service Templates and Service: Schemes

Status of This Memo

   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   The "service:" URL scheme name is used to define URLs (called
   "service: URLs" in this document) that are primarily intended to be
   used by the Service Location Protocol in order to distribute service
   access information.  These schemes provide an extensible framework
   for client-based network software to obtain configuration information
   required to make use of network services.  When registering a
   service: URL, the URL is accompanied by a set of well-defined
   attributes which define the service.  These attributes convey
   configuration information to client software, or service
   characteristics meaningful to end users.

   This document describes a formal procedure for defining and
   standardizing new service types and attributes for use with the
   "service:" scheme.  The formal descriptions of service types and
   attributes are templates that are human and machine understandable.
   They SHOULD be used by administrative tools to parse service
   registration information and by client applications to provide
   localized translations of service attribute strings.










Guttman, et al.             Standards Track
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