RFC 6197

"Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) Service List Boundary Extension", April 2011

Canonical URL:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6197.txt
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Status:

EXPERIMENTAL

Author:

K. Wolf

Stream:

IETF

Source:

ecrit (rai)

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Abstract

Location-to-Service Translation (LoST) maps service identifiers and location information to service contact URIs. If a LoST client wants to discover available services for a particular location, it will perform a <listServicesByLocation> query to the LoST server. However, the LoST server, in its response, does not provide context information; that is, it does not provide any additional information about the geographical region within which the returned list of services is considered valid. Therefore, this document defines a Service List Boundary that returns a local context along with the list of services returned, in order to assist the client in not missing a change in available services when moving. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.