CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by John Veizades/FTP Software Minutes of the Service Location Protocol Working Group (SVRLOC) The Service Location Working Group met at the December '94 IETF meeting in San Jose California to discuss the following. o Changes to the Current Draft - reorganization of the protocol header - field size changes - query example - multiple addresses in the service instance o SCOPE o IPv6 o Implementation Experience Changes to the Current Draft The changes in the current draft were described in detail. They include a change in the overall header field ordering to optimize the use of certain fields and to align some of the fields. The size of certain fields has been expanded to take advantage of certain well known constants like the address type which is now defined in the assigned numbers RFC and authentication length from 8 to 16 bits. The query example in the text was reviewed. The service instance has been changed so that multiple addresses per address family can be returned from the service or directory agent. SCOPE The current SCOPE mechanism was discussed and explained in detail including the relationship between foreign scope and DNS. IPv6 The differences in the Internet-Draft for IPv4 and IPv6 were discussed. The main differences is in the service instance address formats. There was some concern over confusion that may arise between the IPv6 scope concept and the service location scope concept. The chair will add statements on the differences between the two concepts in the IPv6 draft. Other suggestions to the IPv4 and IPv6 drafts are to change the distinguished attribute definition to add a numerical value as the index mechanism into distinguished attributes rather than the text string in the distinguished attribute. This will allow for programmatic discovery of networked services. Implementation Experience The implementation status was reviewed. Only one group is currently working on an implementation of the protocol. The state of this implementation is that it is almost completed. This work has also been discontinued. Implementation experience has shown that this protocol can be easily implemented on modern PC operating systems. SVRLOC Mailing List The mailing list for the Service Location Working Group is moving. There will be a message sent to the list with its new location.