Service Location Protocol (SLP) URL

To: [SLP:/d=lamp, r=office, u=maguire]@it.kth.se

Note that the information inside the [ ] can be encoded in BASE-64 and encrypted, those making it opaque to entities outside the domain.

See RFC 2608 and RFC 3224.

Slide Notes

E. Guttman, C. Perkins, J. Veizades and M. Day, “Service Location Protocol, version 2”, RFC 2608, June 1999, Updated by RFC 3224 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2608.txt Links to an external site.

Guttman, ‘Vendor Extensions for Service Location Protocol, Version 2’, Internet Request for Comments, vol. RFC 3224 (Proposed Standard), January 2002, Available at http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3224.txt Links to an external site..

Transcript

[slide505] So now we can have a so-called service location protocol. So now I can send to the service location protocol saying, I want the lamp in my office for that user at that location to be the recipient of the message I'm sending. [pause] And now we use the whole mechanism that we had for the SIP registrar so that now the registrar can know where my office lamp is. And if I rebind that another lamp become my office lamp. [pause]