Domain-Based Application Service Location Using URIs and the Dynamic Delegation Discovery Service (DDDS)

Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." Abstract This memo defines a generalized mechanism for application service naming that allows service location without relying on rigid domain naming conventions (so-called name hacks). The proposal defines a Dynamic Delegation Discovery System (DDDS) Application to map domain name, application service name, and application protocol to target server and port, dynamically. [Note to be removed for RFC publication: this work was originally referred to as "napstr", and draft-daigle-napstr-04 is the immediate precursor of draft-daigle-snaptr-00.]