Editor's Note: Minutes received 12/18/92 CURRENT_MEETING_REPORT_ Reported by John Veizades/Apple Minutes of the Service Location Protocol Working Group (SVRLOC) The Service Location Working Group met to discuss the latest proposal on service location by Scott Kaplan. The document was discussed and comments were made relating to: o Scalablity - This proposal has to work from the dentist office case to some upward bound. How is that upward bound found and how does the protocol make the transition at this boundary case? This is particularly of issue with the initial dictionary query. o Security - How does the protocol pass around security information for authorization control. o Multilingual - The protocol can be designed to support a variety of languages in one administrative domain by the use of a translation service. The issue of data encoding came up and ASCII english will be used for transmission of character information used in text matching and the translation service will handle multilingual issues. This should be addressed in the next draft of the document. The Group thought that the proposal was in general on the right track. John Veizades and Scott Kaplan will continue to evolve the proposal with intent to have an Internet Draft by the beginning of next year. Bill Nowiciki presented work on RAP by Legato. Interesting insights observed are that protocols like this provide one user interface to services per platform solving the cross product problem of services to platforms. Scott Kaplan is now the Co-Chair of this Working Group taking over from Leo. There will be a new Charter coming out shortly reflecting this and an accurate schedule for the Working Group. Attendees Richard Basch basch@mit.edu Naomi Courter naomi@concert.net Karen Frisa karen.frisa@andrew.cmu.edu Nat Howard nrh@bellcore.com Ronald Jacoby rj@sgi.com Scott Kaplan scott@ftp.com Andrew Knutsen andrewk@sco.com Michael Laufer mlaufer@bbn.com Edward Levinson levinson@pica.army.mil Brian Marsh marsh@mitl.com 1 John Myers jgm+@cmu.edu William Nowicki nowicki@legato.com Tatsuya Ohnishi ohnishi@isl.mei.co.jp Gaige Paulsen gaige@intercon.com Charles Perkins perk@watson.ibm.com Bradley Rhoades bdrhoades@mail.mmmg.com Mike Ritter mwritter@applelink.apple.com Richard Schmalgemeier rgs@merit.edu Cris Shuldiner cws@ftp.com Brad Steinka brad@microcom.com Jim Thompson jim@tadpole.com John Veizades veizades@apple.com 2