EditprÕs note: These minutes have not been edited. These are the minutes for the Service Location Working Group Meeting at the Los Angeles IETF meetings. The agenda for the Service Location WG meeting was as follows: review of changes in the current internet draft status of the Internet draft Updated Charter Concerns with character set encodings Service Location over IPv6 Erik Guttman presented a detailed list of differences between the last two drafts. These differences were driven by suggestions from the two area directors in preparation for movement to proposed standard. Frank Kastenholz corrected the understanding of some of his comments. In particular the use of the "x-" prefix to attributes when the attributes were being used in an unstandardized experimental fashion. Harald Alvestand also corrected the service locations group understanding of the standardization of URL schemes. It was felt that the standardization process for URLs was to cumbersome for the needs of the working group. Standardization of the service location schemes will be handled under the "service:" scheme. This is to say that schemes within service location will start "service:" followed by the service location scheme. These schemes may have the same value as the general URL scheme. For instance the service location scheme for a HTTP server would be "service:http:" followed by the service location defined semantics. There will be a new internet draft published in the coming week to cover these changes. This draft will be presented as a IETF last call. The following items were suggested as a list of charter items for the future. These are listed in priority order with dates for completion. 1. Complete definition of the following schemes. June 1995 Mail Relay Mailbox DNS 2. Define service location over IPv6. June 1995 3. Develop a scheme template doc. June 1995 4. Define an authentication mechanism for service location. December 1995 5. How to do Service Location remote to your home net and to the local net. March 1997 6. Define a global service location mechanism. July 1997 7. Define extensions for Service Location over other network protocols. June 1995 There was some concern about the use of the enum type for character set encoding. Harald insured us that this use was correct. Service location over IPv6 will be using exactly the same document as the IPv4 Service Location protocol and document difference between the two specification. The following is the list of required changes: Definition of Multicast addresses Define type of multicast for service location Definition of a text representation of IPv6 addresses Harald suggested using straight HEX characters Definition of the use of the broadcast address John Veizades will submit the internet drafts for the mailbox and mail relay schemes to the list by the next meeting. He will also submit the IPv6 draft by the next meeting. Erik Guttman will submit the scheme template document to the list by the next meeting. The working group chair will arrange to make a presentation of this protocol to the IPv6 working group at the next IETF. Submitted by John Veizades... Service Location Working Group Chair