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Network Working Group                                       J. VeizadesRequest for Comments: 2165                                @Home NetworkCategory: Standards Track                                    E. Guttman                                                             C. Perkins                                                       Sun Microsystems                                                              S. Kaplan                                                              June 1997Service Location ProtocolStatus of This Memo   This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the   Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for   improvements.  Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet   Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state   and status of this protocol.  Distribution of this memo is unlimited.Abstract   The Service Location Protocol provides a scalable framework for the   discovery and selection of network services.  Using this protocol,   computers using the Internet no longer need so much static   configuration of network services for network based applications.   This is especially important as computers become more portable, and   users less tolerant or able to fulfill the demands of network system   administration.Table of Contents 1. Introduction                                                       3 2. Terminology                                                        32.1. Notation Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .52.2. Service Information and Predicate Representation  . . . .52.3. Specification Language  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 3. Protocol Overview                                                  63.1. Protocol Transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73.2. Schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .83.2.1. The "service:" URL scheme . . . . . . . . . . . .93.3. Standard Attribute Definitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . .93.4. Naming Authority  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103.5. Interpretation of Service Location Replies  . . . . . . .103.6. Use of TCP, UDP and Multicast in Service Location . . . .103.6.1. Multicast vs.  Broadcast  . . . . . . . . . . . .113.6.2. Service-Specific Multicast Address  . . . . . . .11     3.7. Service Location Scaling, and Multicast Operating Modes .   12Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                     [Page 1]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997 4. Service Location General Message Format                           144.1. Use of Transaction IDs (XIDs) . . . . . . . . . . . . . .154.2. URL Entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .164.3. Authentication Blocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .174.4. URL Entry Lifetime  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 5. Service Request Message Format                                    195.1. Service Request Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .225.2. Directory Agent Discovery Request . . . . . . . . . . . .235.3. Explanation of Terms of Predicate Grammar . . . . . . . .245.4. Service Request Predicate Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . .265.5. String Matching for Requests  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 6. Service Reply Message Format                                      28 7. Service Type Request Message Format                               29 8. Service Type Reply Message Format                                 31 9. Service Registration Message Format                               3210. Service Acknowledgement Message Format                          3511. Service Deregister Message Format                               3712. Attribute Request Message Format                                3813. Attribute Reply Message Format                                  4014. Directory Agent Advertisement Message Format                    4215. Directory Agents                                                4315.1. Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4315.2. Finding Directory Agents  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4316. Scope Discovery and Use                                         4516.1. Protected Scopes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4617. Language and Character Encoding Issues                          4717.1. Character Encoding and String Issues  . . . . . . . . . .4817.1.1. Substitution of Character Escape Sequences  . . .4917.2. Language-Independent Strings  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4918. Service Location Transactions                                   5018.1. Service Location Connections  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5018.2. No Synchronous Assumption . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5118.3. Idempotency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5119. Security Considerations                                         5120. String Formats used with Service Location Messages              5220.1. Previous Responders' Address Specification  . . . . . . .5320.2. Formal Definition of the "service:" Scheme  . . . . . . .5320.2.1. Service Type String . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5420.3. Attribute Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5420.4. Address Specification in Service Location . . . . . . . .5520.5. Attribute Value encoding rules  . . . . . . . . . . . . .5521. Protocol Requirements                                           5621.1. User Agent Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5621.2. Service Agent Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5821.3. Directory Agent Requirements  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5922. Configurable Parameters and Default Values                      6122.1. Service Agent:  Use Predefined Directory Agent(s) . . . .6222.2. Time Out Intervals  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .63Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                     [Page 2]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 199723. Non-configurable Parameters                                     6324. Acknowledgments                                                 64 A. Appendix:  Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F): "Code for   the representation of names of languages"                          65 B. SLP Certificates                                                  66 C. Example of deploying SLP security using MD5 and RSA               68 D. Example of use of SLP Certificates by mobile nodes                68 E. Appendix:  For Further Reading                                    691. Introduction   Traditionally, users find services by using the name of a network   host (a human readable text string) which is an alias for a network   address.  The Service Location Protocol eliminates the need for a   user to know the name of a network host supporting a service.   Rather, the user names the service and supplies a set of attributes   which describe the service.  The Service Location Protocol allows the   user to bind this description to the network address of the service.   Service Location provides a dynamic configuration mechanism for   applications in local area networks.  It is not a global resolution   system for the entire Internet; rather it is intended to serve   enterprise networks with shared services.  Applications are modeled   as clients that need to find servers attached to the enterprise   network at a possibly distant location.  For cases where there are   many different clients and/or services available, the protocol is   adapted to make use of nearby Directory Agents that offer a   centralized repository for advertised services.2. Terminology      User Agent (UA)                A process working on the user's behalf to acquire                service attributes and configuration.  The User Agent                retrieves service information from the Service Agents or                Directory Agents.      Service Agent (SA)                A process working on the behalf of one or more services                to advertise service attributes and configuration.      Service Information                A collection of attributes and configuration information                associated with a single service.  The Service Agents                advertise service information for a collection of                service instances.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                     [Page 3]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997      Service   The service is a process or system providing a facility                to the network.  The service itself is accessed using a                communication mechanism external to the the Service                Location Protocol.      Directory Agent (DA)                A process which collects information from Service Agents                to provide a single repository of service information in                order to centralize it for efficient access by User                Agents.  There can only be one DA present per given                host.      Service Type                Each type of service has a unique Service Type string.                The Service Type defines a template, called a "service                scheme", including expected attributes, values and                protocol behavior.      Naming Authority                The agency or group which catalogues given Service Types                and Attributes.  The default Naming Authority is IANA,                the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.      Keyword                A string describing a characteristic of a service.      Attribute                A (class, value-list) pair of strings describing a                characteristic of a service.  The value string may be                interpreted as a boolean, integer or opaque value if it                takes specific forms (seesection 20.5).      Predicate                A boolean expression of attributes, relations and                logical operators.  The predicate is used to find                services which satisfy particular requirements.  Seesection 5.3.      Alphanumeric                A character within the range 'a' to 'z', 'A' to 'Z', or      Scope     A collection of services that make up a logical group.                See sections3.7 and16.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                     [Page 4]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997      Site Network                All the hosts accessible within the Agent's multicast                radius, which defaults to a value appropriate for                reaching all hosts within a site (seesection 22).  If                the site does not support multicast, the agent's site                network is restricted to a single subnet.      URL       A Universal Resource Locator - see [6].      Address Specification                This is the network layer protocol dependent mechanism                for specifying an Agent.  For Internet systems this is                part of a URL.2.1. Notation Conventions      CAPS   Strings which appear in all capital letters are protocol             literal.  All string comparison is case insensitive,             however, (seesection 5.5).  Some strings are quoted in             this document to indicate they should be used literally.             Single characters inside apostrophes are included             literally.      <>     Values set off in this manner are fully described insection 20.  In general, all definitions of items in             messages are described insection 20 or immediately             following their first use.      |  |      \  \   Message layouts with this notation indicate a variable      |  |   length field.2.2. Service Information and Predicate Representation   Service information is represented in a text format.  The goal is   that the format be human readable and transmissible via email.  The   location of network services is encoded as a Universal Resource   Locator (URL) which is human readable.  Only the datagram headers are   encoded in a form which is not human readable.  Strings used in the   Service Location Protocol are NOT null-terminated.   Predicates are expressed in a simple boolean notation using keywords,   attributes, and logical connectives, as described inSection 5.4.   The logical connectives and subexpressions are presented in prefix-   order, so that the connective comes first and the expressions it   operates on follow afterwards.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                     [Page 5]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 19972.3. Specification Language   In this document, several words are used to signify the requirements   of the specification [8].  These words are often capitalized.      MUST       This word, or the adjective "required", means that                 the definition is an absolute requirement of the                 specification.      MUST NOT   This phrase means that the definition is an absolute                 prohibition of the specification.      SHOULD     This word, or the adjective "recommended", means                 that, in some circumstances, valid reasons may exist to                 ignore this item, but the full implications must be                 understood and carefully weighed before choosing a                 different course.  Unexpected results may result                 otherwise.      MAY        This word, or the adjective "optional", means that this                 item is one of an allowed set of alternatives.  An                 implementation which does not include this option MUST                 be prepared to interoperate with another implementation                 which does include the option.      silently discard                 The implementation discards the datagram without                 further processing, and without indicating an error to                 the sender.  The implementation SHOULD provide the                 capability of logging the error, including the contents                 of the discarded datagram, and SHOULD record the event                 in a statistics counter.3. Protocol Overview   The basic operation in Service Location is that a client attempts to   discover the location of a Service.  In smaller installations, each   service will be configured to respond individually to each client.   In larger installations, services will register their services with   one or more Directory Agents, and clients will contact the Directory   Agent to fulfill requests for Service Location information.  Clients   may discover the whereabouts of a Directory Agent by   preconfiguration, DHCP [2,11], or by issuing queries to the   Directory Agent Discovery multicast address.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                     [Page 6]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 19973.1. Protocol Transactions   The diagram below illustrates the relationships described below:      +---------------+   we want this info:     +-----------+      |  Application  | - - - - - - - - - - - -> |  Service  |      +---------------+                          +-----------+           /|\                                      |     |            |                         +-------------+     |            |                         |                   |           \|/                       \|/                 \|/      +---------------+          +-----------+      +----------------+      |   User Agent  |<-------->|  Service  |      |    Service     |      +---------------+          |   Agent   |      | Agent which    |            |                    +-----------+      | does not reply |            |                         |             | to UA requests |            |                        \|/            +----------------+            |                   +-------------+           |            +------------------>|  Directory  |<----------+                                |    Agent    |                                +-------------+      ___________                                     /|\            / Many other\                                      +------------>|   SA's    |                                                    \___________/   The following describes the operations a User Agent would employ to   find services on the site's network.  The User Agent needs no   configuration to begin network interaction.  The User Agent can   acquire information to construct predicates which describe the   services that match the user's needs.  The User Agent may build on   the information received in earlier network requests to find the   Service Agents advertising service information.   A User Agent will operate two ways:  If the User Agent has already   obtained the location of a Directory Agent, the User Agent will   unicast a request to it in order to resolve a particular request.   The Directory Agent will unicast a reply to the User Agent.  The User   Agent will retry a request to a Directory Agent until it gets a   reply, so if the Directory Agent cannot service the request (say it   has no information) it must return an response with zero values,   possibly with an error code set.   If the User Agent does not have knowledge of a Directory Agent or if   there are no Directory Agents available on the site network, a second   mode of discovery may be used.  The User Agent multicasts a request   to the service-specific multicast address, to which the service it   wishes to locate will respond.  All the Service Agents which are   listening to this multicast address will respond, provided they canVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                     [Page 7]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   satisfy the User Agent's request.  A similar mechanism is used for   Directory Agent discovery; seesection 5.2.  Service Agents which   have no information for the User Agent MUST NOT respond.   When a User Agent wishes to obtain an enumeration of ALL services   which satisfy the query, a retransmission/convergence algorithm is   used.  The User Agent resends the request, together with a list of   previous responders.  Only those Service Agents which are not on the   list respond.  Once there are no new responses to the request the   accumulation of responses is deemed complete.  Depending on the   length of the request, around 60 previous responders may be listed in   a single datagram.  If there are more responders than this, the   scaling mechanisms described insection 3.7 should be used.   While the multicast/convergence model may be important for   discovering services (such as Directory Agents) it is the exception   rather than the rule.  Once a User Agent knows of the location of a   Directory Agent, it will use a unicast request/response transaction.   The Service Agent SHOULD listen for multicast requests on the   service-specific multicast address, and MUST register with an   available Directory Agent.  This Directory Agent will resolve   requests from User Agents which are unicasted using TCP or UDP. This   means that a Directory Agent must first be discovered, using DHCP,   the DA Discovery Multicast address, the multicast mechanism described   above, or manual configuration.  Seesection 5.2.   A Service Agent which does not respond to multicast requests will not   be useful in the absence of Directory Agents.  Some Service Agents   may not include this functionality, if an especially lightweight   implementation is required.   If the service is to become unavailable, it should be deregistered   with the Directory Agent.  The Directory Agent responds with an   acknowledgment to either a registration or deregistration.  Service   Registrations include a lifetime, and will eventually expire.   Service Registrations need to be refreshed by the Service Agent   before their Lifetime runs out.  If need be, Service Agents can   advertise signed URLs to prove that they are authorized to provide   the service.3.2. Schemes   The Service Location Protocol, designed as a way for clients to   access resources on the network, is a natural application for   Universal Resource Locators (URLs).  It is intended that by re-using   URL specification and technology from the World Wide Web, clients and   servers will be more flexible and able to be written using alreadyVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                     [Page 8]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   existing code.  Moreover, it is hoped that browsers will be written   to take advantage of the similarity in locator format, so that a   client can dynamically formulate requests for services that are   resolved differently depending upon the circumstances.3.2.1. The "service:"URL scheme   The service URL scheme is used by Service Location.  It is used to   specify a Service Location.  Many Service Types will be named by   including a scheme name after the "service:"  scheme name.  Service   Types are used by SAs to register and deregister Services with DAs.   It is also used by SAs and DAs to return Service Replies to UAs.  The   formal definition of the "service:" URL scheme is insection 20.2.   The format of the information which follows the "service:"  scheme   should as closely as possible follow the URL structure and semantics   as formalized by the IETF standardization process.   Well known Service Types are registered with the IANA and templates   are available as RFCs.  Private Service Types may also be supported.3.3. Standard Attribute Definitions   Service Types used with the Service Location Protocol must describe   the following:         Service Type string of the service         Attributes and Keywords         Attribute Descriptions and interpretations   Service Types not registered with IANA will use their own Naming   Authority string.  The registration process for new Service Types is   defined in [13].   Services which advertise a particular Service Type must support the   complete set of standardized attributes.  They may support additional   attributes, beyond the standardized set.  Unrecognized attributes   MUST be ignored by User Agents.   Service Type names which begin with "x-" are guaranteed not to   conflict with any officially registered Service Type names.  It is   suggested that this prefix be used for experimental or private   Service Type names.  Similarly, attribute names which begin with "x-"   are guaranteed not to be used for any officially registered attribute   names.   A service of a given Service Type should accept the networking   protocol which is implied in its definition.  If a Service Type can   accept multiple protocols, configuration information SHOULD beVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                     [Page 9]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   included in the Service Type attribute information.  This   configuration information will enable an application to use the   results of a Service Request and Attribute Request to directly   connect to a service.   Seesection 20.2.1 for the format of a Service Type String as used in   the Service Location Protocol.3.4. Naming Authority   The Naming Authority of a service defines the meaning of the Service   Types and attributes registered with and provided by Service   Location.  The Naming Authority itself is a string which uniquely   identifies an organization.  If no string is provided IANA is the   default.  IANA stands for the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.   Naming Authorities may define Service Types which are experimental,   proprietary or for private use.  The procedure to use is to create a   'unique' Naming Authority string and then specify the Standard   Attribute Definitions as described above.  This Naming Authority will   accompany registration and queries, as described in sections5 and9.3.5. Interpretation of Service Location Replies   Replies should be considered to be valid at the time of delivery.   The service may, however, fail or change between the time of the   reply and the moment an application seeks to make use of the service.   The application making use of Service Location MUST be prepared for   the possibility that the service information provided is either stale   or incomplete.  In the case where the service information provided   does not allow a User Agent to connect to a service as desired, the   Service Request and/or Attribute Request may be resubmitted.   Service specific configuration information (such as which protocol to   use) should be included as attribute information in Service   Registrations.  These configuration attributes will be used by   applications which interpret the Service Location Reply.3.6. Use of TCP, UDP and Multicast in Service Location   The Service Location Protocol requires the implementation of UDP   (connectionless) and TCP (connection oriented) transport protocols.   The latter is used for bulk transfer, only when necessary.   Connections are always initiated by an agent request or registration,   not by a replying Directory Agent.  Service Agents and User Agents   use ephemeral ports for transmitting information to the service   location port, which is 427.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 10]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The Service Location discovery mechanisms typically multicast   messages to as many enterprise networks as needed to establish   service availability.  The protocol will operate in a broadcast   environment with limitations detailed insection 3.6.1.3.6.1. Multicast vs.Broadcast   The Service Location Protocol was designed for use in networks where   DHCP is available, or multicast is supported at the network layer.   To support this protocol when only network layer broadcast is   supported, the following procedures may be followed.3.6.1.1. Single Subnet   If a network is not connected to any other networks simple network   layer broadcasts will work in place of multicast.   Service Agents SHOULD and Directory Agents MUST listen for broadcast   Service Location request messages to the Service Location port.  This   allows UAs which lack multicast capabilities to still make use of   Service Location on a single subnet.3.6.1.2. Multiple Subnets   The Directory Agent provides a central clearing house of information   for User Agents.  If the network is designed so that a Directory   Agent address is statically configured with each User Agent and   Service Agent, the Directory Agent will act as a bridge for   information that resides on different subnets.  The Directory Agent   address can be dynamically configured with Agents using DHCP. The   address can also be determined by static configuration.   As dynamic discovery is not feasible in a broadcast environment with   multiple subnets and manual configuration is difficult, deploying DAs   to serve enterprises with multiple subnets will require use of   multicast discovery with multiple hops (i.e., TTL > 1 in the IP   header).3.6.2. Service-Specific Multicast Address   This mechanism is used so that the number of datagrams any one   service agent receives is minimized.  The Service Location General   Multicast Address MAY be used to query for any service, though one   SHOULD use the service-specific multicast address if it exists.   If the site network does not support multicast then the query SHOULD   be broadcast to the Service Location port.  If, on the other hand,   the underlying hardware will not support the number of neededVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 11]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   multicast addresses the Service Location General Multicast Address   MAY be used.  Service Agents MUST listen on this multicast address as   well as the service-specific multicast addresses for the service   types they advertise.   Service-Specific Multicast Addresses are computed by calculating a   string hash on the Service Type string.  The Service Type string MUST   first be converted to an ASCII string from whatever character set it   is represented in, so the hash will have well-defined results.   The string hash function is modified from a code fragment attributed   to Chris Torek:        /*         *  SLPhash returns a hash value in the range 0-1023 for a         *  string of single-byte characters, of specified length.         */        unsigned long SLPhash (const char *pc, unsigned int length)            unsigned long h = 0;    while (length-- != 0) {                h *= 33;                h += *pc++;            }            return (0x3FF & h);  /* round to a range of 0-1023 */        }   This value is added to the base range of Service Specific Discovery   Addresses, to be assigned by IANA. These will be 1024 contiguous   multicast addresses.3.7. Service Location Scaling, and Multicast Operating Modes   In a very small network, with few nodes, no DA is required.  A user   agent can detect services by multicasting requests.  Service Agents   will then reply to them.  Further, Service Agents which respond to   user requests must be used to make service information available.   This does not scale to environments with many hosts and services.   When scaling Service Location systems to intermediate sized networks,   a central repository (Directory Agent) may be added to reduce the   number of Service Location messages transmitted in the network   infrastructure.  Since the central repository can respond to all   Service and Attribute Requests, fewer Service and Attribute Replies   will be needed; for the same reason, there is no need to   differentiate between Directory Agents.   A site may also grow to such a size that it is not feasible to   maintain only one central repository of service information.  In thisVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 12]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   case more Directory Agents are needed.  The services (and service   agents) advertised by the several Directory Agents are collected   together into logical groupings called "Scopes".   All Service Registrations that have a scope must be registered with   all DAs (within the appropriate multicast radius) of that scope which   have been or are subsequently discovered.  Service Registrations   which have no scope are only registered with unscoped DAs.  User   Agents make requests of DAs whose scope they are configured to use.   Service Agents MUST register with unscoped DAs even if they are   configured to specifically register with DAs which have a specific   scope or set of scopes.  User Agents MAY query DAs without scopes,   even if they are configured to use DAs with a certain scope.  This is   because any DA with no scope will have all the available service   information.   Scoped user agents SHOULD always use a DA which supports their   configured scope when possible instead of an unscoped DA. This will   prevent the unscoped DAs from becoming overused and thus a scaling   problem.   It is possible to specially configure Service Agents to register only   with a specific set of DAs (seeSection 22.1).  In that case,   services may not be available to User Agents via all Directory   Agents, but some network administrators may deem this appropriate.   There are thus 3 distinct operating modes.  The first requires no   administrative intervention.  The second requires only that a DA be   run.  The last requires that all DAs be configured to have scope and   that a coherent strategy of assigning scopes to services be followed.   Users must be instructed which scopes are appropriate for them to   use.  This administrative effort will allow users and applications to   subsequently dynamically discover services without assistance.   The first mode (no DAs) is intended for a LAN. The second mode (using   a DA or DAs, but not using scopes) scales well to a group of   interconnected LANs with a limited number of hosts.  The third mode   (with DAs and scopes) allows the SLP protocol to be used in an   internetworked campus environment.   If scoped DAs are used, they will not accept unscoped registrations   or requests.  UAs which issue unscoped requests will discover only   unscoped services.  They SHOULD use a scope in their requests if   possible and SHOULD use a DA with their scope in preference to an   unscoped DA. In a large campus environment it would be a bad idea to   have ANY unscoped DAs:  They attract ALL registrations and will thus   present a scaling problem eventually.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 13]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   A subsequent protocol document will describe mechanisms for   supporting a service discovery protocol for the global Internet.4. Service Location General Message Format   The following header is used in all of the message descriptions below   and is abbreviated by using "Service Location header =" followed by   the function being used.      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |    Version    |    Function   |            Length             |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |O|M|U|A|F| rsvd|    Dialect    |        Language Code          |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |        Char Encoding          |              XID              |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+      Version  This protocol document defines version 1 of the Service               Location protocol.      Function Service Location datagrams can be identified as to their               operation by the function field.  The following are the               defined operations:               Message Type             Abbreviation     Function Value               Service Request          SrvReq               1               Service Reply            SrvRply              2               Service Registration     SrvReg               3               Service Deregister       SrvDereg             4               Service Acknowledge      SrvAck               5               Attribute Request        AttrRqst             6               Attribute Reply          AttrRply             7               DA Advertisement         DAAdvert             8               Service Type Request     SrvTypeRqst          9               Service Type Reply       SrvTypeRply          10      Length   The number of bytes in the message, including the Service               Location Header.      O        The 'Overflow' bit.  SeeSection 18 for the use of this               field.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 14]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997      M        The 'Monolingual' bit.  Requests with this bit set               indicate the User Agent will only accept responses in the               language (seesection 17) that is indicated by the               Service or Attribute Request.      U        The 'URL Authentication Present' bit.  See sections4.2,               4.3, 9, and 11 for the use of this field.      A        The 'Attribute Authentication Present' bit.  See               sections4.2,4.3, and13 for the use of this field.      F        If the 'F' bit is set in a Service Acknowledgement, the               directory agent has registered the service as a new               entry, not as an updated entry.      rsvd     MUST be zero.      Dialect  Dialect tags will be used by future versions of the               Service Location Protocol to indicate a variant of               vocabulary used.  This field is reserved and MUST be set               to 0 for compatibility with future versions of the               Service Location Protocol.      Language Code               Strings within the remainder of the message which follows               are to be interpreted in the language encoded (seesection 17 andappendix A) in this field.      Character Encoding               The characters making up strings within the remainder of               the message may be encoded in any standardized encoding               (seesection 17.1).      Transaction Identifier (XID)               The XID (transaction ID) field allows the requester to               match replies to individual requests (seesection 4.1).               Note that, whenever there is an Attribute Authentication               block, there will also be a URL Authentication block.               Thus, it is an error to have the 'A' bit set without also               having the 'U' bit set.4.1. Use of Transaction IDs (XIDs)   Retransmission is used to ensure reliable transactions in the Service   Location Protocol.  If a User Agent or Service Agent sends a message   and fails to receive an expected response, the message will be sent   again.  Retransmission of the same Service Location datagram shouldVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 15]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   not contain an updated XID. It is quite possible the original request   reached the DA or SA, but reply failed to reach the requester.  Using   the same XID allows the DA or SA to cache its reply to the original   request and then send it again, should a duplicate request arrive.   This cached information should only be held very briefly   (CONFIG_INTERVAL_0.)  Any registration or deregistration at a   Directory Agent, or change of service information at a SA should   flush this cache so that the information returned to the client is   always valid.   The requester creates the XID from an initial random seed and   increments it by one for each request it makes.  The XIDs will   eventually wrap back to zero and continue incrementing from there.   Directory Agents use XID values in their DA Advertisements to   indicate their state (seesection 15.2).4.2. URL Entries   When URLs are registered, they have lifetimes and lengths, and may be   authenticated.  These values are associated with the URL for the   duration of the registration.  The association is known as a "URL-   entry", and has the following format:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |           Lifetime            |        Length of URL          |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                              URL                              \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |              (if present) URL Authentication Block .....     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+      Lifetime   The length of time that the registration is valid, in               the absence of later registrations or deregistration.      Length of URL               The length of the URL, measured in bytes and < 32768.      URL Authentication Block               (if present) A timestamped authenticator (section 4.3)Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 16]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The URL conforms toRFC 1738 [6].  If the 'U' bit is set in the   message header, the URL is followed by an URL Authentication Block.   If the scheme used in the URL does not have a standardized   representation, the minimal requirement is:      service:<srvtype>://<addr-spec>   "service" is the URL scheme of all Service Location Information   included in service registrations and service replies.  Each URL   entry contains the service:<srvtype> scheme name.  It may also   include an <addr-spec> except in the case of a reply to a Service   Type request (seesection 7).4.3. Authentication Blocks   Authentication blocks are used to authenticate service registrations   and deregistrations.  URLs are registered along with an URL   Authentication block to retain the authentication information in the   URL entry for subsequent use by User Agents who receive a Service   Reply containing the URL entry.  Service attributes are registered   along with an Attribute Authentication block.  Both authentication   blocks have the format illustrated below.   If a service registration is accompanied by authentication which can   be validated by the DA, the DA MUST validate any subsequent service   deregistrations, so that unauthorized entities cannot invalidate such   registered services.  Likewise, if a service registration is   accompanied by an Attribute Authentication block which can be   validated by the DA, the DA MUST validate any subsequent attribute   registrations, so that unauthorized entities cannot invalidate such   registered attributes.   To avoid replay attacks which use previously validated   deregistrations, the deregistration or attribute registration message   must contain a timestamp for use by the DA. To avoid replay attacks   which use previously validated registrations to nullify a valid   deregistration, registrations must also contain a timestamp.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 17]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   An authentication block has the following format:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     +                           Timestamp                           +     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |  Block Structure Descriptor   |            Length             |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |            Structured Authenticator ...     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+      Timestamp A 64-bit value formatted as specified by the Network               Time Protocol (NTP) [16].      Block Structure Descriptor (BSD)               A value describing the structure of the Authenticator.               The only value currently defined is 1, for               Object-Identifier.      Length   The length of the Authenticator      Structured Authenticator               An algorithm specification, and the authentication data               produced by the algorithm.   The Structured Authenticator contains a digital signature of the   information being authenticated.  It contains sufficient information   to determine the algorithm to be used and the keys to be selected to   verify the digital signature.   The digital signature is computed over the following ordered stream   of data:       CHARACTER ENCODING OF URL   (2 bytes in network byte order)       LIFETIME                    (2 bytes in network byte order)       LENGTH OF URL               (2 bytes in network byte order)       URL                         (n bytes)       TIMESTAMP                   (8 bytes in SNTP format [16])Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 18]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   When producing a URL Authentication block, the authentication data   produced by the algorithm identified within the Structured   Authenticator calculated over the following ordered stream of data:       ATTRIBUTE CHARACTER ENCODING   (2 bytes in network byte order)       LENGTH OF ATTRIBUTES           (2 bytes in network byte order)       ATTRIBUTES                     (n bytes)       TIMESTAMP                      (8 bytes in SNTP format [16])   Every Service Location Protocol entity (User Agent, Service Agent, or   Directory Agent) which is configured for use with protected scopes   SHOULD implement "md5WithRSAEncryption" [4] and be able to associate   it with BSD value == 1.   In the case where BSD value == 1 and the OID "md5WithRSAEncryption"   is selected, the Structured Authenticator will start with the ASN.1   Distinguished Encoding (DER) [9] for "md5WithRSAEncryption", which   has the as its value the bytes (MSB first in hex):      "30 0d 06 09 2a 86 48 86 f7 0d 01 01 04 05 00"   This is then immediately followed by an ASN.1 Distinguished Encoding   (as a "Bitstring") of the RSA encryption (using the Scope's private   key) of a bitstring consisting of the OID for "MD5" concatenated by   the MD5 [22] message digest computed over the fields above.  The   exact construction of the MD5 OID and digest can be found inRFC 1423   [4].4.4. URL Entry Lifetime   The Lifetime field is set to the number of seconds the reply can be   cached by any agent.  A value of 0 means the information must not be   cached.  User Agents MAY cache service information, but if they do,   they must provide a way for applications to flush this cached   information and issue the request directly onto the network.   Services should be registered with DAs with a Lifetime, the suggested   value being CONFIG_INTERVAL_1.  The service must be reregistered   before this interval elapses, or the service advertisement will no   longer be available.  Thus, services which vanish and fail to   deregister eventually become automatically deregistered.5. Service Request Message Format   The Service Request is used to obtain URLs from a Directory Agent or   Service Agents.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 19]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The format of the Service Request is as follows:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |         Service Location header (function = SrvReq)           |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |length of prev resp list string|<Previous Responders Addr Spec>|     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                  <Previous Responders Addr Spec>              \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |  length of predicate string   |  Service Request <predicate>  |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \               Service Request <predicate>, contd.             \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   If a UA issues a request which will result in a reply which is too   large, the SA or DA will return an abbreviated response (in a   datagram the size of the site's MTU) which has the 'Overflow' bit   flag set.  The UA must then issue the request again using TCP.   The <Previous Responders Addr Spec> is described in sections7 and   20.1.   After a User Agent restarts (say, after rebooting of a system,   loading of the network kernel), Service Requests should be delayed   for some random time uniformly distributed within a one second   interval centered about a configured delay value (by default,   CONFIG_INTERVAL_4).   The Service Request allows the User Agent to specify the Service Type   of the service and a Predicate in a specific language.  The general   form of a Service Request is shown below:      <srvtype>[.<na>]/[<scope>]/[<where>]/   The punctuation is necessary even where the fields are omitted.    -  The <srvtype> refers to the Service Type.  For each type of       service available, there is a unique Service type name string.       Seesection 20.2.1.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 20]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997    -  The <na> is the Naming Authority.  This string determines the       semantic interpretation of the attribute information in the       <where> part of the Service Request.    -  The <scope> is a string used to restrict the range of the query.       Scope is determined administratively, at a given site.  It is not       necessarily related to network topology (seeSection 16).       Leaving this field out means that the request can be satisfied       only by unscoped service advertisements.    -  The <where> string is the Where Clause of the request.  It       contains a query which allows the selection of those service       instances which the User Agent is interested in.  The query       includes attributes, boolean operators and relations.  (Seesection 5.3.)   In the case of a multicast service request, a list of previous   responders is sent.  This list will prevent those in the list from   responding, to be sure that responses from other sources are not   drowned out.  The request is multicast repeatedly (with a recommended   wait interval of CONFIG_INTERVAL_2) until there are no new responses,   or a certain time (CONFIG_INTERVAL_3) has elapsed.  Different timing   values are applied to a Service Request used for Directory Agent   Discovery, seeSection 5.2.   In order for a request to succeed in matching registered information,   the following conditions must be met:    1. The result must have the same Service Type as the request.    2. It must have the same Naming Authority.    3. It must have the same scope.  (If the scope of the request       as omitted, the request will only match services which were       registered with no scope.  Note that a scoped request WILL match       all unscoped Services).    4. The conditions specified in the Where Clause must match the       attributes and keywords registered for the service.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 21]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 19975.1. Service Request Usage   The User Agent may form Service Requests using preconfigured   knowledge of a Service Type's attributes.  It may also issue   Attribute Requests to obtain the attribute values for a Service Type   before issuing Service Requests (seeSection 13).  Having obtained   the attributes which describe a particular kind of service from an   Attribute Request, or using configured knowledge of a service's   attributes, the User Agent can build a predicate that describes the   service needs of the user.   Service Requests may be sent directly to a Directory Agent.  Suppose   a printer supporting the lpr protocol is needed on the 12th floor   which has UNRESTRICTED_ACCESS and prints 12 pages per minute.   Suppose further that a Attribute Request indicates that there is a   printer on the 12th floor, a printer that prints 12 pages per minute,   and a printer that offers UNRESTRICTED_ACCESS. To check whether they   are same printer, issue the following request:      lpr//(& (PAGES PER MINUTE==12)               (UNRESTRICTED_ACCESS)               (LOCATION==12th FLOOR))/   Suppose there is no such printer.  The Directory Agent responds with   a Service Reply with 0 in the number of responses and no reply   values.   The User Agent then tries a less restrictive query to find a printer,   using the 12th floor as "where" criteria.      lpr//(LOCATION==12th FLOOR)/   In this case, there is now only one reply:      Returned URL:   service:lpr://igore.wco.ftp.com:515/draft   The Address Specification for the printer is:  igore.wco.ftp.com:515,   containing the name of the host managing the requested printer.   Files would be printed by spooling to that port on that host.  The   word 'draft' refers to the name of the print queue the lpr server   supports.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 22]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   In the absence of a Directory Agent, the request above could be   multicast.  In this case it would be sent to the Service Specific   Multicast Address for "service:printer" and not to the Directory   Agent.  Service Agents that can satisfy the predicate will reply.   Service Agents which cannot support the character set of the request   MUST return CHARSET_NOT_UNDERSTOOD in the SrvRply.  In all other   circumstances, Service Agents which cannot satisfy the reply do not   send any reply at all.   The only way a User Agent can be sure there are no services which   match the query is by retrying the request (CONFIG_INTERVAL_8).  If   no response comes, the User Agent gives up and assumes there are no   such printers.   Another form of query is a simpler 'join' query.  Its syntax has no   parentheses or logical operators.  Each term is conjoined (AND-ed   together.)  Rewriting the initial query provides an example:      lpr//PAGES PER MINUTE==12,           UNRESTRICTED_ACCESS,           LOCATION==12th FLOOR/5.2. Directory Agent Discovery Request   Normally a Service Request returns a Service Reply.  The sole   exception to this is a Service Request for the Service Type   "directory-agent".  This Service Request is answered with a DA   Advertisement.   Without configured knowledge of a Directory Agent (DA), a User Agent   or Service Agent uses a Service Request to discover a DA. (Seesection 15.1 for mechanisms by which a client may be configured to   have knowledge of a DA.) Such a Service Request used for Directory   Agent Discovery includes a predicate of the form:      directory-agent///   This query is always sent to the Directory Agent Discovery multicast   address.  The Service Type of a Directory Agent is "directory-agent",   hence it is the Service Type used in the request.  No scope is   included in the request, so all Directory Agents will reply.  This is   the only request which omits a scope which all Directory Agents MUST   respond to.  Normally, a Directory Agent with a scope ONLY responds   to requests with that scope.  No Naming Authority is included, so   "IANA" is assumed.  We want to reach all the available directory   agents.  If the scope were supplied, only DAs supporting that scope   would reply.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 23]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   DA Advertisement Replies may arrive from different sources, similar   in form to:     URL returned:   service:directory-agent://slp-resolver.catch22.com     Scope returned: ACCOUNTING     URL returned:   service:directory-agent://204.182.15.66 Scope     returned: JANITORIAL SERVICES   The DA Advertisement format is defined inSection 14.   If the goal is merely to discover any Directory Agent, the first   reply will do.  If the goal, however, is to discover all reachable   DAs, the request must be retransmitted after an interval (the   recommended time is CONFIG_INTERVAL_5).  This retransmitted request   will include a list of DAs which have already responded.  See   sections7 and20.1.  Directory Agents which receive the request will   only respond if they are not on this list.  After there are no new   replies, all DAs are presumed to have been discovered.   If a DA fails to respond after CONFIG_INTERVAL_6 seconds, the UA or   Service Agent should use a different DA. DA addresses may be cached   from previous discovery attempts, preconfigured, or by use of DHCP   (seesection 15.2).  If no such DA responds, DA discovery should be   used to find a new DA. Only after CONFIG_INTERVAL_7 seconds should it   be assumed that no DA exists and multicast based Service Requests   should be used.5.3. Explanation of Terms of Predicate Grammar   A predicate has a simple structure, which depends on parentheses,   commas and slashes to delimit the elements.  Examples of proper usage   are given throughout this document.  The terms used in the grammar   are as follows:      predicate:         Placed in a Service Request, this is interpreted by a Service         Agent or Directory Agent to determine what information to         return.      scope:         If this is absent in a Service Request, the request will match         only services registered without a scope.  If it is present,         only services registered under that scope or are unscoped will         match the request.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 24]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997      where-clause:         This determines which services the request matches.  An empty         where-clause will match all services.  The request will be         limited to services which have the specified Service Type, so         the where-clause is not the sole factor in picking out which         services match the request.      where-list:         The where-list is a logical expression.  It can be a single         expression, a disjunction or a conjunction.  A single         expression must apply for the where-clause to match.  A         disjunction matches if any expression in the OR list matches.         A conjunction matches only if all elements in the AND list         match.         Note that there is no logical negation operator:  This is         because there is no notion of returning "everything except"         what matches a given criteria.         A where-list can be nested and complex.  For example, the         following requires that three subexpressions must all be true:                (& (| <query-item> <query-item>)                   <query-item>                   (& <query-item> <query-item> <query-item>)                )         Notice that white space, tabs or carriage returns can be added         anywhere outside query-items.  Each list has 2 or more items in         it, and lists can be nested.  Services which fulfill the entire         logical expression match the where-clause.         degenerate expressions but they should be tolerated.  They are         equivalent to <query-item>.      query-item:         A query item has the form:               '(' <attr-tag> <comp-op> <attr-val> ')'         or               '(' <keyword> ')'Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 25]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997         Examples of this would be:            (SOME ATTRIBUTE == SOME VALUE)            (RESERVED)            (QUEUE LENGTH <= 234)      query-join:         The query-join is a comma delimited list of conditions which         the service must satisfy in order to match the query.  The         items are considered to be logically conjoined.  Thus the         query-join:               ATTR1=VALUE1, KEYWORD1, KEYWORD2, ATTR2>=34         is equivalent to the where-list:               (& (ATTR1=VALUE1) (KEYWORD1) (KEYWORD2) (ATTR2>=34))         The query-join cannot be mixed with a where-list.  It is         provided as a convenient mechanism to provide a statement of         necessary conditions without building a logical expression.5.4. Service Request Predicate Grammar   Service Requests can precisely describe the services they need by   including a Predicate the body of the Request.  This Predicate must   be constructed according to the grammar below.   <predicate>  ::= <srvtype>['.'<na>]'/'<scope>'/'<where>'/'   <srvtype>    ::= string representing type of service.  Only                    alphanumeric characters, '+', and '-' are allowed.   <na>         ::= string representing the Naming Authority.                    Only alphanumeric characters, '+',                    and '-' are allowed.  If this field is                    omitted then "IANA" is assumed.   <scope>      ::= string representing the directory agent scope.                    '/', ',' (comma) and ':'  are not allowed in                    this string.  The scopes "LOCAL" and "REMOTE"                    are reserved.   <attr-tag>   ::= class name of an attribute of a given Service                    Type.  This tag cannot include the following                     characters:  '(', ')', ',', '=', '!', '>',                     '<', '/', '*', except where escaped (see 17.1.)Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 26]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   <keyword>    ::= a class name of an attribute which will have                    no values.  This string has the same limits                    as the <attr-tag>, except that white space                    internal to the keyword is illegal.   <where>      ::= <where-any> |                    <where-list> |                    <query-join>   <where-any>  ::=                    That is NOTHING, or white space.   <where-list> ::= '(' '&' <where-list> <query-list> ')' |                    '(' '|' <where-list> <query-list> ')' |                    '(' <keyword> ')'                    '(' <attr-tag> <comp-op> <attr-val> ')'   <query-list> ::= <where-list> |                    <where-list> <query-list>   <query-join> ::= <keyword> |                    <join-item> |                    <query-join> ',' <keyword> |                    <query-join> ',' <join-item>   <join-item>  ::= <attr-tag> <comp-op> <attr-val>   <comp-op>    ::= "!=" | "==" | '<' | "<=" | '>' | ">="   <attr-val>   ::= any string (seeSection 20.5 for the ways                    in which attr-vals are interpreted.)                    Value strings may not contain '/', ','                    '=', '<', '>', or '*' except where escaped                    (see 17.1.).                    '(' and ')' may be used in attribute values                     for the purpose of encoding a binary values.                     Binary encodings (See 20.5) may                     include the above reserved characters.5.5. String Matching for Requests   All strings are case insensitive, with respect to string matching on   queries.  All preceding or trailing blanks should not be considered   for a match, but blanks internal to a string are relevant.   For example, "  Some String  " matches "SOME STRING", but not "some   string".Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 27]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   String matching may only be performed over the same character sets.   If a request cannot be satisfied due to a lack of support for the   character set of the request a CHARSET_NOT_UNDERSTOOD error is   returned.   String comparisons (using comparison operators such as '<' or   registration, not using any language specific rules.  The ordering is   strictly by the character value, i.e.  "0" < "A" is true when the   character set is US-ASCII, since "0" has the value of 48 and "A" has   the value 65.   The special character '*' may precede or follow a string in order to   allow substring matching.  If the '*' precedes a string, it matches   any attribute value which ends with the string.  If the string ends   with a '*', it matches any attribute value which begins with the   string.  Finally, if a string begins and ends with a '*', the string   will match any attribute value which contains the string.   Examples:        "bob*" matches "bob", "bobcat", and "bob and sue" "*bob" matches        "bob", "bigbob", and "sue and bob" "*bob*" matches "bob",        "bobcat", "bigbob", and "a bob I know"   String matching is done after escape sequences have been substituted.   See sections17,5.3,17.1.6. Service Reply Message Format   The format of the Service Reply Message is:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |          Service Location header (function = SrvRply)         |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |         Error Code            |         URL Entry count       |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                         <URL Entry 1> ...     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                              .                                |     \                              .                                \     |                              .                                |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                         <URL Entry N> ...     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   Each Service Reply message is composed of a list of URL Entries.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 28]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The Error Code may have one of the following values:      0        Success      LANGUAGE_NOT_SUPPORTED               A SA or DA returns this when a request is received from a               UA which is in a language for which there is no               registered Service Information and the request arrived               with the Monolingual bit set.  SeeSection 17.      PROTOCOL_PARSE_ERROR               A SA or DA returns this error when a SrvRply is received               which cannot be parsed or the declared string lengths               overrun the message.      SCOPE_NOT_SUPPORTED               A DA will return this error if it receives a request               which has a scope not supported by the DA. An SA will not               return this error; it will simply not reply to the               multicast request.      CHARSET_NOT_UNDERSTOOD               If the DA or SA receives a request or registration in a               character set which it does not support, it will return               this error.   Each <URL Entry> in the list has the form defined inSection 4.2.   The URL entries in the reply have no delimiters between them, other   than the length fields.  The URL length fields indicate where the URL   strings end.  If the presence of an URL Authenticator block is   signalled by the 'U' bit, the length of the authenticator block is   determined by information within the block as discussed insection4.3.  A User Agent MAY use the authentication block to determine   whether the Service Agent advertising the URL is, in fact, authorized   to offer the indicated service.  If, in a list of URL entries, some   of the URLs indicate services which are in protected scopes (seesection 16.1) while other URLs in the list indicate services which   are not in protected scopes, the latter must still have   Authentication Blocks, but the length of the authentcitor is shown as   zero, and no authentication need be done.7. Service Type Request Message Format   The Service Type Request is used to determine all the types of   services supported on a network.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 29]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The request should be sent directly to a DA (though it may also be   sent to the Service Location General Multicast Address), in order to   find out all services available on the site network (which are   advertised by Directory Agents and Service Agents.)  If no DA is   available, a User Agent MAY issue more than one request to insure   that all replies have been received.  In each subsequent request, a   User Agent includes those Service Types that it is aware of.  When no   new replies arrive within CONFIG_INTERVAL_3 from a request, the User   Agent can presume that it has acquired a complete set of available   Service Types.   The format of a Service Type Request is:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |        Service Location header (function = SrvTypeRqst)       |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |  length of prev resp string   |<Previous Responders Addr Spec>|     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                  <Previous Responders Addr Spec>              \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |   length of naming authority  |   <Naming Authority String>   |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \            <Naming Authority String>, continued               \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |     length of Scope String    |         <Scope String>        |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                   <Scope String>, continued                   \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   Note that the <Previous Responders Addr Spec> is a comma delimited   list.  (Seesection 20.1.)  The 'length of prev responder list' field   indicates the length of the comma delimited list string.  A previous   responder list with 3 elements takes this form:         <addr-spec>,<addr-spec>,<addr-spec>Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 30]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The Naming Authority, if included, will limit the replies to Service   Type Requests to Service Types which have the specified Naming   Authority.  If this field is omitted (i.e., the length field is   zero), the default Naming Authority ("IANA") is assumed.  If the   length field is -1, service types from all naming authorities are   requested.   The Scope String Field, if included, will limit replies to Service   Types which have the specified scope or are unscoped.  If this field   is omitted, all Service Types (from the specified Naming Authority)   are returned.8. Service Type Reply Message Format   The Service Type Reply has the following format:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |        Service Location header (function = SrvTypeRply)       |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |          Error Code           |    number of service types    |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                     <Service Type Item 1>                     \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                             . . .                             |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                     <Service Type Item N>                     \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   The format of a Service Type Item is as follows:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     | length of Service Type String |     <Service Type String>     |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                 <Service Type String>, continued              \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 31]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The Error Code may have one of the following values:      0        Success      PROTOCOL_PARSE_ERROR               A SA or DA returns this error when a SrvTypeRqst is               received which cannot be parsed.      SCOPE_NOT_SUPPORTED               A DA which is configured to have a scope will return this               error if it receives a SrvTypeRqst which is set to have a               scope which it does not support.  An SA will not return               this error, it will simply silently discard the multicast               request.      CHARSET_NOT_UNDERSTOOD               If the DA receives a SrvTypeRqst in a character set which               it does not support, it MUST use this error.   The service type's name is provided in the <Service Type String>.  If   the service type has a naming authority other than "IANA" it should   be returned following the service type string and a "." character.   Seesection 20.2.1 for the formal definition of this field.  User   Agents calculate Service Specific Multicast addresses based on a hash   of the Service Type (seeSection 3.6.2).  This multicast address may   then be used for issuing Service and Attribute Requests directly to   SAs.   The following are examples of Service Type Strings which might be   found in Service Type Replies:         service:lpr://         service:http://         service:nfs://9. Service Registration Message Format   After a Service Agent has found a Directory Agent, it begins to   register its advertised services one at a time.  A Service Agent must   wait for some random time uniformly distributed within the range   specified by CONFIG_INTERVAL_11 before registering again.   Registration is done using the Service Registration message   specifying all attributes for a service.  If the service registration   in a protected scope 16.1, then the service MUST include both a URL   Authentication block and an Attribute Authentication block (seesection 4.3).  In that case, the service agent MUST set both the 'U'   bit and the 'A' bit (seesection 4).Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 32]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   A Directory Agent must acknowledge each service registration request.   If authentication blocks are included, the Directory Agent MUST   verify the authentication before registering the service.  This   requires obtaining key information, either by preconfiguration,   maintenance of a security association with the service agent, or   acquiring the appropriate certificate.   The format of a Service Registration is:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |           Service Location header (function = SrvReg)         |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                          <URL-Entry>                          \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |  Length of Attr List String   |          <attr-list>          |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                    <attr-list>, Continued.                    \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |    (if present) Attribute Authentication Block ...     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   The <URL-Entry> is defined at the end ofSection 4.2.  The <attr-   list> is defined inSection 20.3.  The Attribute Authentication   Block, which is only present if the 'A' bit is set in the message   header, is defined insection 4.3.   Service registration may use a connectionless protocol (e.g.  UDP),   or a connection oriented protocol (e.g.  TCP). If the registration   operation may contain more information than can be sent in one   datagram, the Service Agent MUST use a connection oriented protocol   to register itself with the DA. When a Service Agent registers the   same attribute class more than once for a service instance, the   Directory Agent overwrites the all the values associated with that   attribute class for that service instance.  Separate registrations   must be made for each language that the service is to be advertised   in.   If a SA attempts to register a service with a DA and the registration   is larger than the site path MTU, then the DA will reply with a   SrvAck, with the error set to INVALID_REGISTRATION and the 'Overflow'   byte set.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 33]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   An example of Service Registration information is:      Lifetime (seconds):   16-bit unsigned integer      URL (at least):       service:<srvtype>://<addr-spec>      Attributes (if any):  (ATTR1=VALUE),KEYWORD,(ATTR2 = VAL1, VAL2)   In order to offer continuously advertised services, Service Agents   should start the reregistration process before the Lifetime they used   in the registration expires.   An example of a service registration (valid for 3 hours) is as   follows:      Lifetime:   10800      URL:        service:lpr://igore.wco.ftp.com:515/draft      Attributes: (SCOPE=DEVELOPMENT),                  (PAPER COLOR=WHITE),                  (PAPER SIZE=LETTER),                  UNRESTRICTED_ACCESS,                  (LANGUAGE=POSTSCRIPT, HPGCL),                  (LOCATION=12 FLOOR)   The same registration could be done again, as shown below, in German;   however, note that "lpr", "service", and "SCOPE" are reserved terms   and will remain in the language they were originally registered   (English).      Lifetime:   10800      URL:        service:lpr://igore.wco.ftp.com:515/draft      Attributes: (SCOPE=ENTWICKLUNG),                  (PAPIERFARBE=WEISS),                  (PAPIERFORMAT=BRIEF),                  UNBEGRENTZTER_ZUGANG,                  (DRUECKERSPRACHE=POSTSCRIPT,HPGCL),                  (STANDORT=11 ETAGE)   Scoped registrations must contain the SCOPE attribute.  Unscoped   registrations must be registered with all unscoped Directory Agents.   Registrations of a previously registered service are considered an   update.  If such an attribute registration is performed in a   protected scope (seesection 16.1), a new Attribute Authentication   block must also be included, and the 'A' bit set in the registration   message header.   The new registration's attributes replace the previous   registration's, but do not effect attributes which were included   previously and are not present in the update.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 34]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   For example, suppose service:x://a.org has been registered with   attributes A=1, B=2, C=3.  If a new registration comes for   service:x://a.org with attributes C=30, D=40, then the attributes for   the service after the update are A=1, B=2, C=30, D=40.   In the example above, the SCOPE is set to DEVELOPMENT (in English)   and ENTWICKLUNG (in German).  Recall that all strings in a message   must be in one language, which is specified in the header.  The   string SCOPE is *not* translated, as it is one of the reserved   strings in the Service Location Protocol (seesection 17.2.)   The Directory Agent may return a server error in the acknowledgment.   This error is carried in the Error Codes field of the service   location message header.  A Directory Agent MUST decline to register   a service if it is specified with an unsupported scope.  In this case   a SCOPE_NOT_SUPPORTED error is returned in the SrvAck.  A Directory   Agent MUST NOT accept Service Registrations which have an unsupported   scope unless it is an unscoped Directory Agent, in which case it MUST   accept all Service Registrations.   An unscoped Service Registration will match all requests.  A request   which specifies a certain scope will therefore return services which   have that scope and services which are unscoped.  It is strongly   suggested that one should use scopes in all registrations or none.   See Sections16 and3.7 for details.   When the URL entry accompanying a registration also contains an   authentication block (section 4.3), the DA MUST perform the indicated   authentication, and subsequently indicate the results in the Service   Acknowledgement message.10. Service Acknowledgement Message Format   A Service Acknowledgement is sent as the result of a DA receiving and   processing a Service Registration or Service Deregistration.  An   acknowledgment indicating success must have the error code set to   zero.  Once a DA acknowledges a service registration it makes the   information available to clients.      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |            Service Location header (function = SrvAck)        |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |          Error Code           |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 35]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The Error Code may have one of the following values:      0        Success      PROTOCOL_PARSE_ERROR               A DA returns this error when the SrvReg or SrvDereg is               received which cannot be parsed or the declared string               lengths overrun the message.      INVALID_REGISTRATION               A DA returns this error when a SrvReg or SrvDeReg is               invalid.  For instance, an invalid URL, unknown or               malformed attributes, or deregistering an unregistered               service all cause this error to be reported.      SCOPE_NOT_SUPPORTED               A DA which is configured to have a scope will return this               error if it receives a SrvReq which is set to have a               scope which it does not support.      CHARSET_NOT_UNDERSTOOD               If the DA receives a SrvReg or SrvDereg in a character               set which it does not support, it will return this error.      AUTHENTICATION_ABSENT               If DA has been configured to require an authentication               for any service registered in the requested scope, and               there are no authentication blocks in the registration,               the DA will return this error.      AUTHENTICATION_FAILED               If the registration contains an authentication block               which fails to match the correct result as calculated               (seesection 4.3) over the URL or attribute data to be               authenticated, the DA will return this error.   If the Directory Agent accpets a Service Registration, and already   has an existing entry, it updates the existing entry with the new   lifetime information and possibly new attributes and new attribute   values.  Otherwise, if the registration is acceptable (including all   necessary authentication checks) the Directory Agent creates a new   entry, and sets the 'F' bit in the Service Acknowledgement returned   to the Service Agent.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 36]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 199711. Service Deregister Message Format   When a service is no longer available for use, the Service Agent must   deregister itself from Directory Agents that it has been registered   with.  A service uses the following PDU to deregister itself.      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |           Service Location header (function = SrvDereg)       |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |         length of URL         |              URL              |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \              URL of Service to Deregister, contd.             \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |             (if present) authentication block .....     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |  length of <tag spec> string  |            <tag spec>         |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                     <tag spec>, continued                     \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   The Service Agent should retry this operation if there is no response   from the Directory Agent.  The Directory Agent acknowledges this   operation with a Service Acknowledgment message.  Once the Service   Agent receives an acknowledgment indicating success, it can assume   that the service is no longer advertised by the Directory Agent.  The   Error Code in the Acknowledgment of the Service Deregistration may   have the same values as described insection 10.   The Service Deregister Information sent to the directory agent has   the following form:        service:<srvtype>://<addr-spec>        Attribute tags (if any):  ATTR1,KEYWORD,ATTR2   This will deregister the specified attributes from the service   information from the directory agent.  If no attribute tags are   included, the entire service information is deregistered in every   language and every scope it was registered in.  To deregister the   printer from the preceding example, use:         service:lpr://igore.wco.ftp.com:515/draftVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 37]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   If the service was originally registered with a URL entry containing   a URL authentication block, then the Service Deregistration message   header MUST have the 'U' bit set, and the URL entry is then followed   by the authentication block, with the authenticator calculated over   the URL data, the timestamp, and the length of the authenticator as   explained insection 4.3.  In this calculation, the lifetime of the   URL data is considered to be zero, no matter what the current value   for the remaining lifetime of the registered URL.12. Attribute Request Message Format   The Attribute Request is used to obtain attribute information.  The   UA supplies a request and the appropriate attribute information is   returned.   If the UA supplies only a Service Type, then the reply includes all   attributes and all values for that Service Type.  The reply includes   only those attributes for which services exist and are advertised by   the DA or SA which received the Attribute Request.  Since different   instances of a given service can, and very likely will, have   different values for the attributes defined by the Service Type, the   User Agent must form a union of all attributes returned by all   service Agents.  The Attribute information will be used to form   Service Requests.   If the UA supplies a URL, the reply will contain service information   corresponding to that URL.   Attribute Requests include a 'select clause'.  This may be used to   limit the amount of information returned.  If the select clause is   empty, all information is returned.  Otherwise, the UA supplies a   comma delimited list of attribute tags and keywords.  If the   attribute or keyword is defined for a service, it will be returned in   the Attribute Reply, along with all registered values for that   attribute.  If the attribute selected has not been registered for   that URL or Service Type, the attribute or keyword information is   simply not returned.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 38]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The Attribute Request message has the following form:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |         Service Location header (function = AttrRqst)         |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |length of prev resp list string|<Previous Responders Addr Spec>|     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \         <Previous Responders Addr Spec>, continued            \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |         length of URL         |              URL              |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                         URL, continued                        \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |        length of <Scope>      |           <Scope>             |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                      <Scope>, continued                       \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |   length of <select-list>     |        <select-list>          |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                   <select-list>, continued                    \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   The <Previous Responder Address List> functions exactly as introduced   inSection 7.  See alsoSection 20.1.   The URL can take two forms:  Either it is simply a Service Type, such   as "service:http:", or it can be a URL, such as   "service:lpr://igore.wco.ftp.com:515/draft".  In the former case, all   attributes and the full range of values for each attribute for the   Service Type is returned.  In the latter case, only the attributes   for the service whose URL is defined are returned.   The Scope String is provided so that Attribute Requests for Service   Types can be made so that only the Attribute information pertaining   to a specific scope will be returned.  This field is ignored in the   case when a full URL is sent in the Attribute Request.  The rules for   encoding of the Scope String are given inSection 5.4.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 39]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The select list takes the form:    <select-list>  ::= <select-item> |                       <select-item> ',' <select-list>    <select-item>  ::= <keyword> | <attr-tag> | <partial-tag> '*'    <partial-tag>  ::= the partial class name of an attribute                       If followed by an '*', it matches all class names                       which begin with the partial tag.  If preceded by                       a partial tag.  If both preceded and followed by                       '*' it matches all class names which contain the                       partial tag.   For definitions of <attr-tag> and <keyword> see 5.4.   An example of a select-list following the printer example is:   PAGES PER MINUTE, UNRESTRICTED_ACCESS, LOCATION   If sent to a Directory Agent, the number of previous responders is   zero and there are no Previous Responder Address Specification.   These fields are only used for repeated multicasting, exactly as for   the Service Request.13. Attribute Reply Message Format   An Attribute Reply Message takes the form:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |         Service Location header (function = AttrRply)         |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |         Error Code            |  length of <attr-list> string |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                          <attr-list>                          \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   The Error Code may have the following values:      0        SuccessVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 40]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997      LANGUAGE_NOT_SUPPORTED               A SA or DA returns this when a request is received from a               UA which is in a language for which there is no               registered Service Information and the request arrived               with the Monolingual bit set.  SeeSection 17.      PROTOCOL_PARSE_ERROR               A DA or SA returns this error when a AttrRqst is received               which cannot be parsed or the declared string lengths               overrun the message.      SCOPE_NOT_SUPPORTED               A DA which is configured to have a scope will return this               error if it receives an AttrRqst which is set to have a               scope which it does not support.  SAs will silently               discard multicast AttrRqst messages for scopes they do               not support.      CHARSET_NOT_UNDERSTOOD               If the DA receives an AttrRqst in a character set which               it does not support, it will return this error.  SAs will               silently discard multicast AttrRqst messages which arrive               using character sets they do not support.   The <attr-list> (attribute list) has the same form as the attribute   list in a Service Registration, seeSection 20.3 for a formal   definition of this field.   An Attribute Request for "lpr" might elicit the following reply   (UNRESTRICTED_ACCESS is a keyword):         (PAPER COLOR=WHITE,BLUE),         (PAPER SIZE=LEGAL,LETTER,ENVELOPE,TRACTOR FEED),         UNRESTRICTED_ACCESS,         (PAGES PER MINUTE=1,3,12),         (LOCATION=12th, NEAR ARUNA'S OFFICE),         (QUEUES=LEGAL,LETTER,ENVELOPE,LETTER HEAD)   If the message header has the 'A' bit set, the Attribute Reply will   have an Attribute Authentication block set.  In this case, the   Attribute Authenticator must be returned with the entire list of   attributes, exactly as it was registered by an SA in a protected   scope.  In this case, the URL was registered in a protected scope and   the UA included a URL but not a select clause.  If the AttrRqst   specifies that only certain attributes are to be returned, the DA   does not (typically cannot) compute a new Authenticator so it simply   returns the attributes without an authenticator block.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 41]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   A UA which wishes to obtain authenticated attributes for a service in   a protected scope MUST therefore must include a particular URL and no   select list with the AttrRqst.14. Directory Agent Advertisement Message Format   Directory Agent Advertisement Messages have the following format:      0                   1                   2                   3      0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |          Service Location header (function = DAAdvert)        |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |           Error Code          |         Length of URL         |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                              URL                              \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |     Length of <Scope-list>    |          <Scope-list>         |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+     |                                                               |     \                    <Scope-list>, continued                    \     |                                                               |     +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+   The Error Code is set when a DA Advertisement is returned as the   result of a Service Request.  It will always be set to 0 in the case   of an unsolicited DA Advertisement.  The Error Code may take the   values specified inSection 6.   The URL corresponds to the Directory Agent's location.  The <Scope-   list> is a comma delimited list of scopes which the DA supports, in   the following format:         <Scope-list>    ::=    <Scope> | <Scope-list> ',' <Scope>         <Scope>         ::=    String representing a scope   SeeSection 5.4 for the lexical rules regarding <Scope>.   DA Advertisements sent in reply to a Directory Agent Discovery   Request has the same format as the unsolicited DA Advertisement, for   example:      URL:        service:directory-agent://SLP-RESOLVER.CATCH22.COM      SCOPE List: ADMINVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 42]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   The Directory Agent can be reached at the Address Specification   returned, and supports the SCOPE called "ADMIN".15. Directory Agents15.1. Introduction   A Directory Agent acts on behalf of many Service Agents.  It acquires   information from them and acts as a single point of contact to supply   that information to User Agents.   The queries that a User Agent multicasts to Service Agents (in an   environment without a Directory Agent) are the same as queries that   the User Agent might unicast to a Directory Agent.  A User Agent may   cache information about the presence of alternate Directory Agents to   use in case a selected Directory Agent fails.   Aside from enhancing the scalability of the protocol (seesection3.7), running multiple DAs provides robustness of operation.  The DAs   may have replicated service information which remain accessible even   when one of the DAs fail.  Directory Agents, in the future, may use   mechanisms outside of this protocol to coordinate the maintenance of   a distributed database of Service Location information, and thus   scale to enterprise networks or larger administrative domains.   Each Service Agent must register with all DAs they are configured to   use.  UAs may choose among DAs they are configured to use.   Locally, Directory Agent consistency is guaranteed using mechanisms   in the protocol.  There isn't any Directory to Directory Agent   protocol yet.  Rather, passive detection of DAs by SAs ensures that   eventually service information will be registered consistently   between DAs.  Invalid data will age out of the Directory Agents   leaving only transient stale registrations even in the case of a   failure of a Service Agent.15.2. Finding Directory Agents   A User or Service Agent may be statically configured to use a   particular DA. This is discouraged unless the application resides on   a network where any form of multicast or broadcast is impossible.   Alternatively, a host which uses DHCP [2,11] may use it to obtain a   Directory Agent's address.  DHCP options 78 and 79 have been assigned   for this purpose [21].   The third way to discover DAs is dynamically.  This is done by   sending out a Directory Agent Discovery request (seeSection 5.2).Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 43]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   Lastly, the agent may be informed passively as follows:   When a Directory Agent first comes on-line it sends an unsolicited DA   Advertisement to the Service Location general multicast address.  If   a DA supports a particular scope or set of scopes these are placed in   the reply.  The class for this attribute is 'SCOPE'.   Every CONFIG_INTERVAL_9 a Directory Agent will send an unsolicited DA   Advertisement.  This will ensure that eventually it will be   discovered by all applications which are concerned.   When a Directory Agent first comes up it begins with 0 as its XID,   and increments this by one each time it sends an unsolicited DA   Advertisement.  When the counter wraps, it should go from 0xFFFF to   0x0100, not 0.   If the Directory Agent has stored all of the service information in a   nonvolatile store, it should initially set the XID to 0x100, as it is   not coming up 'stateless.'  If it stores service registrations in   memory only, it will restart without any state.  It should indicate   this by resetting its XID to 0.   All Service Agents which receive the unsolicited DA Advertisement   should examine its XID. If the Directory Agent has never before been   heard from or if the XID is less than it was previously and less than   256, the Service Agent should assume the DA does not have its service   registration, even if it once did.  If this is the case and the DA   has the proper scope, the SA should register all service information   with the Directory Agent, after waiting a random interval   CONFIG_INTERVAL_10.   When a Service Agent or User Agent first comes on-line it must issue   a Directory Agent Discovery Request unless it is using static or DHCP   configuration, as described in 5.2.   A Service Agent registers information with ALL newly discovered   Directory Agents when either of the above two events take place.   When scopes are being used, a Service Agent SHOULD choose a set of   scopes to be advertised in and need only register with Directory   Agents that support the scopes in which they wish to be registered.   Services MUST be registered with DAs that support their scope and   those which have no scope, unless specifically configured not to do   so (seesection 22.1.)Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 44]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   Once a User Agent becomes aware of a Directory Agent it will unicast   its queries there.  In the event that more than one Directory Agent   is detected, it will select one to communicate with.  When scopes are   supported, the User Agent will direct its queries to different   Directory Agents depending on which scopes are appropriate domains   for the query to be answered in.   The protocol will cause all DAs (of the same scope) to eventually   obtain consistent information.  Thus one DA should be as good as any   other for obtaining service information.  There may be temporary   inconsistencies between DAs.16. Scope Discovery and Use   The scope mechanism in the Service Location Protocol enhances its   scalability.  The primary use of scopes is to provide the capability   to organize a site network along administrative lines.  A set of   services can be assigned to a given department of an organization, to   a certain building or geographical area or for a certain purpose.   The users of the system can be presented with these organizational   elements as a top level selection, before services within this domain   are sought.   A site network that has grown beyond a size that can be reasonably   serviced by a few DAs can use the scope mechanism.  DAs have the   attribute class "SCOPE".  The values for this attribute are a list of   strings that represent the administrative areas for which this   Directory Agent is configured.  The semantics and language of the   strings used to describe the scope are almost entirely the choice of   the administrative entity of the particular domain in which these   scopes exist.  The values of SCOPE should be configurable, so the   system administrator can set its value.  The scopes "LOCAL" and   "REMOTE" are reserved and SHOULD NOT be used.  Use of these reserved   values is to be defined in a future protocol document.   Services with the attribute SCOPE should only be registered with DAs   which support the same scope or DAs which have no scope.   Directory Agents advertise their available scopes.  A Service Agent   may then choose a scope in which to register, and SHOULD register   with all Directory Agents in that scope, as well as all DAs which   have no scope.  Failure to be comprehensive in registration according   to this rule will mean that the service advertisement may not be   available to all User Agents.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 45]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   A Directory Agent which has a scope will return advertisements in   response to Directory Agent Discovery requests with the scope   information included.  Note that the "service:directory-agent" scheme   is registered with the IANA naming authority (which is automatically   selected by leaving the Naming Authority field empty.)   The query:         directory-agent/MATH DEPT//   Could receive the following DA Advertisement:      Returned URL:        service:directory-agent://diragent.blah.edu      Returned SCOPE:      MATH DEPT   The same Directory Agent if it had no scope value would reply:      Returned URL:        service:directory-agent://diragent.void.com      Returned SCOPE:   If a Directory Agent supported more than one scope it would reply as:      Returned URL:        service:directory-agent://srv.domain.org      Returned SCOPE:      MATH DEPT,ENGLISH DEPT,CS DEPT   A DA which has no scope will reply to any Directory Agent Discovery   Request.   Being a member of a scope means that an agent SHOULD use those   Directory Agents that support its scope.  User Agents send all   requests to DAs which support the indicated scope.  Services are   registered with the DA(s) in their scope.  For a UA to find a service   that is registered in a particular scope it must send requests to a   DA which supports the indicated scope.  There is no limitation on   scope membership built into the protocol; that is to say, a User   Agent or Service Agent may be a member of more than one scope.   Membership is open to all, unless some external authorization   mechanism is added to limit access.16.1. Protected Scopes   Scope membership MAY also define the security access and   authorization for services in the scope; such scopes are called   protected scopes.  If a User Agent wishes to be sure that Service   Agents are authorized to provide the service they advertise, then the   User Agent should request services from a protected scope which has   been configured to have the necessary authentication mechanism and   keys distributed to the Service Agents within the scope.  A directoryVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 46]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   agent distributing URLs for services in a protected scope will reject   any registrations or deregistrations for service agents which cannot   provide cryptographically strong authentication to prove their   authorization to provide the services.   For instance, if a campus registrar wishes to find a working printer   to produce student grade information for mailing, the registrar would   require the printing user agent to transmit the printable output only   to those printing Service Agents which have been registered in the   appropriate protected scope.  Notice that each service agent is,   under normal circumstances, validated two times:  once when   registering with the directory agent, and once when the user agent   validates the URL received with the Service Reply.  This protects   against the possibilities of malicious Directory Agents as well as   malicious Service Agents.   Note that services in protected scopes provide separate   authentication for their URL entry, and for their attributes.  This   follows naturally from the needs of the protocol operation.  User   Agents which specify a service type and attributes needed for service   in that service type will not receive attribute information from the   directory agent; they will only receive the appropriate URL entries.   Only the information returned needs to be authenticated.   User agents which receive attribute information for a particular URL   (seesection 12), on the other hand, need to authenticate the   attributes when they are returned (seesection 13).  In this case,   there may be much more data to authenticate, but this operation is   also performed much less often, usually only while the user is   browsing the available network resources.17. Language and Character Encoding Issues   All Service Registrations declare the language in which the strings   in the service attributes are written by specifying the appropriate   code in the message header.  For each language the Service advertises   a separate registration takes place.  Each of these registrations   uses the same URL to indicate that they refer to the same service.   If a Service is fully deregistered (the URL is given in the Service   Deregister request, without any attribute information) then the   Service needs to be deregistered only once.  This will effectively   deregister the service in all languages it has been registered in.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 47]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   If, on the other hand, attribute information is included in the   Service Deregistration request, a separate Service Deregistration of   selected attributes must be undertaken in each language in which   service information has been provided to the DA by a Service Agent.   Service Registrations in different languages are mutually   unintelligible.  They share no information except for their service   type and URL with which they were registered.  No attempt is made to   match queries with "language independence." Instead, queries are   handled using string matching against registrations in the same   language as the query.   Service Types which are standardized will have definitions for all   attributes and value strings.  Official translations to other   languages of the attribute tags and values may be created and   submitted as part of the standard; this is not feasible for all   languages.  For those languages which are not defined as part of the   Service Type, a best effort translation of the standard definitions   of the Service type's attribute strings MAY be used.   All Service Requests specify a requested language in the message   header.  The Directory Agent or Service Agent will respond in the   same language as the request, if it has a registration in the same   language as the request.  If this language is not supported, and the   Monolingual bit is not specified, a reply can be sent in the default   language (which is English.)  If the 'monolingual bit' flag in the   header is set and the requested language is not supported, a SrvRply   is returned with the error field set to LANGUAGE_NOT_SUPPORTED.   If a query is in a supported language on a SA or DA, but has a   different dialect than the available service information, the query   MUST be serviced on a best-effort basis.  If possible, the query   should be matched against the same dialect.  If that is not possible,   it MAY be matched against any dialect of the same language.17.1. Character Encoding and String Issues   Values for character encoding can be found in IANA's databasehttp://www.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/character-sets   and have the values referred by the MIBEnum value.   The encoding will determine the interpretation of all character data   which follows the Service Location Protocol header.  There is no way   to mix ASCII and UNICODE, for example.  All responses must be in the   character set of the request, or use US-ASCII. If a request is sent   to a DA or SA or a registration is sent to a DA, which is unable to   manipulate or store the character set of the incoming message, the   request will fail.  The SA or DA returns a CHARSET_NOT_UNDERSTOOD   error in a SrvAck message in this case.  Requests using US-ASCII willVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 48]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   never fail for this reason, since all SAs and DAs must be able to   accept this character set.   Certain characters are illegal in certain contexts of the protocol.   Since the protocol is largely character string based, in some   contexts characters are used as protocol delimiters.  In these cases   the delimiting characters must not be used as 'data text.'17.1.1. Substitution of Character Escape Sequences   The Service Location Protocol has an 'escape mechanism' which is   consistent with HTTP 2.0 [5] and SGML [15].  If the character   sequence "&#" is followed by one or more digits, followed by a   semicolon ';' the entire sequence is interpreted as a single   character.  The digits are interpreted as a decimal value in the   character set of the request, as specified by the header.  Thus, in   US-ASCII &#44; would be interpreted as a comma.  Substitution of   these escape strings must be done in all <attr-list> and strings   present in SrvReq and AttrRqst messages.  Only numerical character   references are accepted, not 'Entity References,' as defined in HTML.   These escape values should only be used to provide a mechanism for   including reserved characters in attribute tag and value strings.   The interpretation of these escape values is different than in HTML   in one respect:  In HTML the escape values are considered to be in   the ISO Latin-1 character set.  In Service Location they are   interpreted in the character set defined in the header of the   message.   This escape mechanism allows characters like commas to be included in   attribute tags and values, which would otherwise be illegal as the   comma is a protocol delimiter.   Attribute tags and values of different languages are considered to be   mutually unintelligible.  A query in one language SHOULD use service   information registered in that language.17.2. Language-Independent Strings   Some strings, such as Service Type names, have standard definitions.   These strings should be considered as tokens and not as words in a   language to be translated.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 49]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997    Reserved String Section xDefinition    --------------- ------- --------------------------------------    SCOPE           3, 15   Used to limit the matching of requests.    SERVICE         6, 9    The URL scheme of all Service Location                            information registered with a DA or                            returned from a Service Request.    <srvtype>       20.2.1  Used in all service registrations                            and replies.    domain names    20.4    A fully qualified domain name, used                            in registrations and replies.    IANA            3.3     The default naming authority.    LOCAL           16      Reserved.    REMOTE          16      Reserved.    TRUE            20.5    Boolean true.    FALSE           20.5    Boolean false.18. Service Location Transactions18.1. Service Location Connections   When a Service Location Request or Attribute Request results in a UDP   reply from a Service or Directory Agent that will overflow a   datagram, the User Agent can open a connection to the Agent and   reissue the request over the connection.  The reply will be returned   with the overflow bit set (seesection 4).  The reply will contain as   much data as will fit into a single datagram.  If no MTU information   is available for the route, assume that the MTU is 1400; this value   is configurable (seesection 22).   When a request results in overflowed data that cannot be correctly   parsed (say, because of duplicate or dropped IP datagrams), a User   Agent that wishes to reliably obtain the overflowed data must   establish a TCP connection with the Directory Agent or Service Agent   with the data.  When the request is sent again with a new XID, the   reply is returned over the connection.   When registration data exceeds one datagram in length, the Service   Registration should be made by establishing a connection with a   Directory Agent and sending the registration over the connection   stream.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 50]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   Directory Agents and Service Agents must respond to connection   requests; services whose registration data can overflow a datagram   must be able to use TCP to send the registration.  User Agents should   be able to make Service and Attribute Requests using TCP. If they   fail to implement this, they must be able to interpret partial   replies and/or reissue requests with more selective criteria to   reduce the size of the replies.   A connection initiated by an Agent may be used for a single   transaction.  It may also be used for multiple transactions.  Since   there are length fields in the message headers, the Agents may send   multiple requests along a connection and read the return stream for   acknowledgments and replies.   The initiating agent is responsible for closing the TCP connection.   The DA should wait at least CONFIG_INTERVAL_12 before closing an idle   connection.  DAs and SAs SHOULD eventually close idle connections to   ensure robust operation, even when the agent which opened a   connection neglects to close it.18.2. No Synchronous Assumption   There is no requirement that one transaction complete before a given   host begins another.  An agent may have multiple outstanding   transactions, initiated either using UDP or TCP.18.3. Idempotency   All Service Location actions are idempotent.  Of course registration   and deregistration will change the state of a DA, but repeating these   actions with the same XID will have exactly the same effect each   time.  Repeating a registration with a new XID has the effect of   extending the lifetime of the registration.19. Security Considerations   The Service Location Protocol provides for authentication of Service   Agents as part of the scope mechanism, and consequently, integrity of   the data received as part of such registrations.  Service Location   does not provide confidentiality.  Because the objective of this   protocol is to advertise services to a community of users,   confidentiality might not generally be needed when this protocol is   used in non-sensitive environments.  Specialized schemes might be   able to provide confidentiality, if needed in the future.  Sites   requiring confidentiality should implement the IP Encapsulating   Security Payload (ESP) [3] to provide confidentiality for Service   Location messages.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 51]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   Using unprotected scopes, an adversary might easily use this protocol   to advertise services on servers controlled by the adversary and   thereby gain access to users' private information.  Further, an   adversary using this protocol will find it much easier to engage in   selective denial of service attacks.  Sites that are in potentially   hostile environments (e.g.  are directly connected to the Internet)   should consider the advantages of distributing keys associated with   protected scopes prior to deploying the sensitive directory agents or   service agents.   Service Location is useful as a bootstrap protocol.  It may be used   in environments in which no preconfiguration is possible.  In such   situations, a certain amount of "blind faith" is required:  Without   any prior configuration it is impossible to use any of the security   mechanisms described above.  Service Location will make use of the   mechanisms provided by the Security Area of the IETF for key   distribution as they become available.  At this point it would only   be possible to gain the benefits associated with the use of protected   scopes if some cryptographic information can be preconfigured with   the end systems before they use Service Location.  For User Agents,   this could be as simple as supplying the public key of a Certificate   Authority.  SeeAppendix B.20. String Formats used with Service Location Messages   The following section supplies formal definitions for fields and   protocol elements introduced in the sections indicated.      Protocol Element                      Defined in         Used in      -----------------------------------   ------------     ------------      <Previous Responders' Addr Spec>      20.1             SrvReq      Service Request <predicate>           5.4              SrvReq      URL                                   20.2             SrvReg,                                                               SrvDereg,                                                               SrvRply      <attr-list>                           20.3             SrvReg,                                                               SrvRply,                                                               AttrRply      <Service Registration Information>    9                SrvReg      <Service Deregister Information>      11               SrvDereg      <Service Type String>                 20.2.1           AttrRqstVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 52]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 199720.1. Previous Responders' Address Specification   The previous responders' Address Specification is specified as      <Previous Responders' Address Specification> ::=             <addr-spec> |             <addr-spec>, <Previous Responders' Address Specification>   i.e., a list separated by commas with no intervening white space.   The Address Specification is the address of the Directory Agent or   Service Agent which supplied the previous response.  The format for   Address Specifications in Service Location is defined insection20.4.  The comma delimiter is required between each <addr-spec>.  The   use of dotted decimal IP address notation should only be used in   environments which have no Domain Name Service.   Example:         RESOLVO.NEATO.ORG,128.127.203.6320.2. Formal Definition of the "service:"Scheme   A URL with a "service:"  scheme is used in the SrvReg, SrvDereg,   SrvRply and AttrRqst messages in Service Location.  URLs are defined   inRFC 1738 [6].  A URL with the "service:"  scheme must contain at   least:   <url> ::= service:<srvtype>://<addr-spec>   where:      service       the URL scheme for Service Location, to return                    Replies.      <srvtype>     a string; Service Types may be standardized                    by developing a specification for the "service                    type"-specific part and registering it with IANA.                    See sections20.2.1 and3.3.      <addr-spec>   the service access point of the service.  It is the                    network address or domain name where the service can                    be accessed.  Seesection 20.4.   The "service:"  scheme may be followed by any legal URL. The a   particular service.  The protocol used to access the service at the   given service access <addr-spec> may be implicit in the Service Type   name.  If this is not the case, the Service Type MUST be defined in   such a way that attribute information will include all necessaryVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 53]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   configuration and protocol information.  A User Agent MUST therefore   be able to use either a "service:"  URL alone or a "service:"  URL in   conjunction with service attributes to make use of a service.20.2.1. Service Type String   The Service Type is a string describing the type of service.  These   strings may only be comprised of alphanumeric characters, '+', and   Type names.   If the Service Type name is followed by a '.'  and a string (which   has the same limitations) the 'suffix' is considered to be the Naming   Authority of the service.  If the Naming Authority is omitted, IANA   is assumed to be the Naming Authority.   Service Types developed for in-house or experimental use may have any   name and attribute semantics provided that they do not conflict with   the standardized Service Types.20.3. Attribute Information   The <attr-list> is returned in the Attribute Reply if the Attribute   Request does not result in an empty result.   <attr-list> ::= <attribute> | <attribute>, <attr-list>   <attribute> ::= (<attr-tag>=<attr-val-list>) | <keyword>   <attr-val-list> ::= <attr-val> | <attr-val>, <attr-val-list>   An <attr-list> must be scanned prior to evaluation for all   occurrences of the string "&#" followed by one or more digit followed   by ';'.  SeeSection 17.1.1.   A keyword has only an <attr-tag>, and no values.   A comma cannot appear in an <attr-val>, as the comma is used as the   multiple value delimiter.  Examples of an <attr-list> are:         (SCOPE=ADMINISTRATION)         (COLOR=RED, WHITE, BLUE)         (DELAY=10 MINS),BUSY,(LATEST BUILD=10-5-95),(PRIORITY=L,M,H)   The third example has three attributes in the list.  Color can take   on the values red, white and blue.  There are several other examples   of replies throughout the document.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 54]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 199720.4. Address Specification in Service Location   The address specification used in Service Location is:     <addr-spec> ::= [<user>:<password>@]<host>[:<port>]     <host>      ::= Fully qualified domain name |                     dotted decimal IP address notation   When no Domain Name Server is available, SAs and DAs must use dotted   decimal conventions for IP addresses.  Otherwise, it is preferable to   use a fully qualified domain name wherever possible as renumbering of   host addresses will make IP addresses invalid over time.   Generally, just the host domain name (or address) is returned.  When   there is a non-standard port for the protocol, that should be   returned as well.  Some applications may make use of the   <user>:<password>@ syntax, but its use is not encouraged in this   context until mechanisms are established to maintain confidentiality.   Address specification in Service Location is consistent with standard   URL format [6].20.5. Attribute Value encoding rules   Attribute values, and attribute tags are CASE INSENSITIVE for   purposes of lexical comparison.   Attribute values are strings containing any characters with the   exception of '(', ')', '=', '>', '<', '/', '*', and ',' (the comma)   except in the case described below where opaque values are encoded.   These characters may be included using the character value escape   mechanism described insection 17.1.1.   While an attribute can take any value, there are three types of   values which differentiate themselves from general strings:   Booleans, Integers and Opaque values.    -  Boolean values are either "TRUE" or "FALSE".  This is the case       regardless of the language (i.e.  in French or Telugu, Boolean       TRUE is "TRUE", as well as in English.)  Boolean attributes can       take only one value.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 55]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997    -  Integer values are expressed as a sequence of numbers.  The       range of allowable values for integers is "-2147483648" to       "2147483647".  No other form of numeric representation is       interpreted as such except integers.  For example, hexadecimal       numbers such as "0x342" are not interpreted as integers, but as       strings.    -  Opaque values (i.e.  binary values) are expressed in radix-64       notation.  The syntax is:            <opaque-val>    ::=  (<len>:<radix-64-data>)            <len>           ::=  number of bytes of the original data            <radix-64-data> ::=  radix-64 encoding of the original data       <len> is a 16-bit binary number.  Radix-64 encodes every 3 bytes       of binary data into 4 bytes of ASCII data which is in the range       of characters which are fully printable and transferable by mail.       For a formal definition of the Radix-64 format seeRFC 1521 [7],       MIME Part One,Section 5.2 Base64 Content Transfer Encoding, page       21.21. Protocol Requirements   In this section are listed various protocol requirements for User   Agents, Service Agents, and Directory Agents.21.1. User Agent Requirements   A User Agent MAY:    -  Provide a way for the application to configure the default DA, so       that it can be used without needing to find it each initially.    -  Be able to request the address of a DA from DHCP, if configured       to do so.    -  Ignore any unauthenticated Service Reply.    -  Be able to issue requests in any language or character set       provided that it can switch to the default language and character       set if the request can not be serviced by DAs and SAs at the       site.    -  Require an authentication block in any URL entry returned as       part of a Service Request, before making use of the advertised       service.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 56]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   A User Agent SHOULD:    -  Try to contact DHCP to obtain the address of a DA.    -  Use a scope in all requests, if possible.    -  Issue requests to scoped DAs if the UA has been configured with a       scope.    -  Listen on the Service Location General Multicast address for       unsolicited DA Advertisements.  This will increase the set of       Directory Agents available to it for making requests.  SeeSection 15.2.    -  Be able to be configured to require an authentication block in       any received URL entry advertised as belonging to a protected       scope, before making use of the service.   If the UA does not listen for DA Advertisements, new DAs will not be   passively detected.  A UA which does not have a configured DA and has   not yet discovered one and is not listening for unsolicited DA   Advertisements will remain ignorant of DAs.  It may then do a DA   discovery before each query performed or it may simply use multicast   queries to Service Agents.   A User Agent MUST:    -  Be able to unicast requests and receive replies from a DA.       Transactions should be made reliable by using retransmission of       the request if the reply does not arrive within a timeout       interval.    -  Be able to detect DAs using a Directory Agent Discovery request       issued when the UA starts up.    -  Be able to send requests to a multicast address.  Service       Specific Multicast addresses are computed based on a hash of the       Service Type.  SeeSection 3.6.2.    -  Be able to handle numerous replies after a multicast request.       The implementation may be configurable so it will either return       the first reply, all replies until a timeout or keep trying till       the results converge.    -  Ignore any unauthenticated Service Reply or Attribute Reply when       an appropriate IPSec Security Association for that Reply exists.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 57]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997    -  Whenever it obtains its IP address from DHCP in the first place,       also attempt to obtain scope information, and the address of a       DA, from DHCP.    -  Use the IP Authentication Header or IP Encapsulating Payload in       all Service Location messages, whenever an appropriate IPSec       Security Association exists.    -  Be able to issue requests using the US-ASCII character set.    -  If configured to use a protected scope, be able to use       "md5WithRSAEncryption" [4] to verify the signed data.21.2. Service Agent Requirements   A Service Agent MAY be able to:    -  Get the address of a local Directory Agent by way of DHCP.    -  Accept requests in non-US-ASCII character encodings.  This is       encouraged, especially for UNICODE [1] and UTF-8 [24] encodings.    -  Register services with a DA in non-US-ASCII character encodings.       This is encouraged, especially for UNICODE [1] and UTF-8 [24]       encodings.   A Service Agent SHOULD be able to:     -  Listen to the service-specific multicast address of the service       it is advertising.  The incoming requests should be filtered:  If       the Address Specification of the SA is in the Previous Responders       Address Specification list, the SA SHOULD NOT respond.       Otherwise, a response to the multicast query SHOULD be unicast to       the UA which sent the request.    -  Listen for and respond to broadcast requests and TCP connection       requests, to the Service Location port.    -  Be configurable to calculate authentication blocks and thereby    be enabled to register in protected scopes.  This requires that the    service agent be configured to possess the necessary keys to    calculate the authenticator.   A Service Agent MUST be able to:    -  Listen to the Service Location General Multicast address for       queries (e.g., Service Type Requests).  If the query can be       replied to by the Service Agent, the Service Agent MUST do so.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 58]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997       It MUST check first to make sure it is not on the list of       'previous responders.'    -  Listen to the Service Location General Multicast address for       unsolicited DA Advertisements.  If one is detected, and the DA       has the right scope, (or has no scope), all services which are       currently being advertised MUST be registered with the DA (unless       configured to only use a single DA (seesection 22.1), or the DA       has already been detected, subject to certain rules (seesection15.2)).    -  Whenever it obtains its IP address from DHCP in the first place,       also attempt to obtain scope information, and the address of a       DA, from DHCP.    -  Unicast registrations and deregistrations to a DA. Transactions       should be made reliable by using retransmission of the request if       the reply does not arrive within a timeout interval.    -  Be able to detect DAs using a Directory Agent Discovery request       issued when the SA starts up (unless configured to only use a       single DA, seesection 22.1.)    -  Use the IP Authentication Header or IP Encapsulating Payload in       all Service Location messages, whenever an appropriate IPSec       Security Association exists.    -  Be able to register service information with a DA using US-ASCII       character encoding.  It must also be able to reply to requests       from UAs which use US-ASCII character encoding.    -  Reregister with a DA before the Lifetime of registered service       information elapses.    -  If configured to use a protected scope, be able to use       "md5WithRSAEncryption" [4] to produce the signed data.21.3. Directory Agent Requirements   A Directory Agent MAY:    -  Accept registrations and requests in non-US-ASCII character       encodings.  This is encouraged, especially for UNICODE [1] and       UTF-8 [24] encodings.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 59]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   A Directory Agent SHOULD:    -  Be able to configure certain scopes as protected scopes, so that       registrations within those scopes require the calculation of       cryptographically strong authenticators.  This requires that the       DA be able to possess the keys needed for the authentication, or       that the DA be able to acquire a certificate generated by a       trusted Certificate Authority [23], before completing Service       Registrations for protected scopes.   A Directory Agent MUST be able to:    -  Send an unsolicited DA Advertisements to the Service Location       General Multicast address on startup and repeat it periodically.       This reply has an XID which is incremented by one each time.  If       the DA starts with state, it initializes the XID to 0x0100.  If       it starts up stateless, it initializes the XID to 0x0000.    -  Ignore any unauthenticated Service Registration or Service       Deregistration from an entity with which it maintains a security       association.    -  Listen on the Directory Agent Discovery Multicast Address for       Directory Agent Discovery requests.  Filter these requests if the       Previous Responder Address Specification list includes the DA's       Address Specification.    -  Listen for broadcast requests to the Service Location port.    -  Listen on the TCP and UDP Service Location Ports for unicast       requests, registrations and deregistrations and service them.    -  Provide a way in which scope information can be used to configure       the Directory Agent.    -  Expire registrations when the service registration's lifetime       expires.    -  When a Directory Agent has been configured with a scope, it MUST       refuse all requests and registrations which do not have this       scope.  The DA replies with a SCOPE_NOT_SUPPORTED error.  There       is one exception:  All DAs MUST respond to DA discovery requests       which have no scope.    -  When a Directory Agent has been configured without a scope, it       MUST accept ALL registrations and requests.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 60]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997    -  Ignore any unauthenticated Service Location messages when an       appropriate IPSec Security Association exists for that request.    -  Use the IP Authentication and IP Encapsulating Security Payload       in Service Location messages whenever an appropriate IPSec       Security Association exists.    -  Accept requests and registrations in US-ASCII.    -  If configured with a protected scope, be able to authenticate (at       least by using "md5WithRSAEncryption" [4]) Service Registrations       advertising services purporting to belong to such configured       protected scopes.22. Configurable Parameters and Default Values   There are several configuration parameters for Service Location.   Default values are chosen to allow protocol operation without the   need for selection of these configuration parameters, but other   values may be selected by the site administrator.  The configurable   parameters will allow an implementation of Service Location to be   more useful in a variety of scenarios.      Multicast vs.  Broadcast               All Service Location entities must use multicast by               default.  The ability to use broadcast messages must be               configurable for UAs and SAs.  Broadcast messages are to               be used in environments where not all Service Location               entities have hardware or software which supports               multicast.      Multicast Radius               Multicast requests should be sent to all subnets in a               site.  The default multicast radius for a site is 32.               This value must be configurable.  The value for the               site's multicast TTL may be obtained from DHCP using an               option which is currently unassigned.      Directory Agent Address               The Directory Agent address discovery mechanism must be               configurable.  There are three possibilities for this               configuration:  A default address, no default address and               the use of DHCP to locate a DA as described insection15.2.  The default value should be use of DHCP, with "no               default address" used if DHCP does not respond.  In this               case the UA or SA must do a Directory Agent Discovery               query.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 61]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997      Directory Agent Scope Assignment               The scope or scopes of a DA must be configurable.  The               default value for a DA is to have no scope if not               otherwise configured.      Path MTU               The default path MTU is assumed to be 1400.  This value               may be too large for the infrastructure of some sites.               For this reason this value MUST be configurable for all               SAs and DAs.      Keys for Protected Scopes               If the local administration designates certain scopes as               "protected scopes", the agents making use of those scopes               have to be able to acquire keys to authenticate data sent               by services along with their advertised URLs for services               within the protected scope.  For instance, service agents               would use a private key to produce authentication data.               By default, service agents use "md5WithRSAEncryption" [4]               to produce the signed data, to be be included with               service registrations and deregistrations (seeappendixB, 4.3).  This authentication data could be verified by               user agents and directory agents that possess the               corresponding public key.22.1. Service Agent:Use Predefined Directory Agent(s)   A Service Agent's default configuration is to do passive and active   DA discovery and to register with all DAs which are properly scoped.   A Service Agent SHOULD be configurable to allow a special mode of   operation:  They will use only preconfigured DAs.  This means they   will *NOT* actively or passively detect DAs.   If a Service Agent is configured this way, knowledge of the DA must   come through another channel, either static configuration or by the   use of DHCP.   The availability of the Service information will not be consistent   between DAs.  The mechanisms which achieve eventual consistency   between DAs are ignored by the SA, so their service information will   not be distributed.  This leaves the SA open to failure if the DA   they are configured to use fails.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 62]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 199722.2. Time Out Intervals   These values should be configurable in case the site deploying   Service Location has special requirements (such as very slow links.)   Interval name       Section Default Value Meaning   -----------------   ------- ------------- -----------------------   CONFIG_INTERVAL_0   4.1     1 minute      Cache replies by XID.   CONFIG_INTERVAL_1   4.4     10800 seconds registration Lifetime,                               (ie.  3 hours)after which ad expires   CONFIG_INTERVAL_2   5       each second,  Retry multicast query                               backing off   until no new values                               gradually     arrive.   CONFIG_INTERVAL_3   5       15 seconds    Max time to wait for a                                             complete multicast query                                             response (all values.)   CONFIG_INTERVAL_4   9       3 seconds     Wait to register on                                             reboot.   CONFIG_INTERVAL_5   5.2     3 seconds     Retransmit DA discovery,                                             try it 3 times.   CONFIG_INTERVAL_6   5.2     5 seconds     Give up on requests sent                                             to a DA.   CONFIG_INTERVAL_7   5.2     15 seconds    Give up on DA discovery   CONFIG_INTERVAL_8   5.1     15 seconds    Give up on requests                                             sent to SAs.   CONFIG_INTERVAL_9   15.2    3 hours       DA Heartbeat, so that SAs                                             passively detect new DAs.   CONFIG_INTERVAL_10  15.2    1-3 seconds   Wait to register services                                             on passive DA discovery.   CONFIG_INTERVAL_11  9       1-3 seconds   Wait to register services                                             on active DA discovery.   CONFIG_INTERVAL_12  18.1    5 minutes     DAs and SAs close idle                                             connections.   A note on CONFIG_INTERVAL_9:  While it might seem advantageous to   have frequent heartbeats, this poses a significant risk of generating   a lot of overhead traffic.  This value should be kept high to prevent   routine protocol operations from using any significant bandwidth.23. Non-configurable Parameters   IP Port number for unicast requests to Directory Agents:         UDP and TCP Port Number:                          427Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 63]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   Multicast Addresses         Service Location General Multicast Address:       224.0.1.22         Directory Agent Discovery Multicast Address:      224.0.1.35   A range of 1024 contiguous multicast addresses for use as Service   Specific Discovery Multicast Addresses will be assigned by IANA.   Error Codes:         No Error                   0         LANGUAGE_NOT_SUPPORTED     1         PROTOCOL_PARSE_ERROR       2         INVALID_REGISTRATION       3         SCOPE_NOT_SUPPORTED        4         CHARSET_NOT_UNDERSTOOD     5         AUTHENTICATION_ABSENT      6         AUTHENTICATION_FAILED      724. Acknowledgments   This protocol owes some of the original ideas to other service   location protocols found in many other networking protocols.  Leo   McLaughlin and Mike Ritter (Metricom) provided much input into early   version of this document.  Thanks also to Steve Deering (Xerox) for   providing his insight into distributed multicast protocols.  Harry   Harjono and Charlie Perkins supplied the basis for the URL based wire   protocol in their Resource Discovery Protocol.  Thanks also to   Peerlogic, Inc.  for supporting this work.  Lastly, thanks to Jeff   Schiller for his help in shaping the security architecture specified   in this document.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 64]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997  A. Appendix:  Technical contents of ISO 639:1988 (E/F): "Code for the   representation of names of languages"   Two-letter lower-case symbols are used.  The Registration Authority   for ISO 639 [14] is Infoterm, Osterreiches Normungsinstitut (ON),   Postfach 130, A-1021 Vienna, Austria.  Contains additions from ISO   639/RA Newsletter No.1/1989. See alsoRFC 1766.    aa Afar               ga Irish               mg Malagasy    ab Abkhazian          gd Scots Gaelic        mi Maori    af Afrikaans          gl Galician            mk Macedonian    am Amharic            gn Guarani             ml Malayalam    ar Arabic             gu Gujarati            mn Mongolian    as Assamese                                  mo Moldavian    ay Aymara             ha Hausa               mr Marathi    az Azerbaijani        he Hebrew              ms Malay                          hi Hindi               mt Maltese    ba Bashkir            hr Croatian            my Burmese    be Byelorussian       hu Hungarian    bg Bulgarian          hy Armenian            na Nauru    bh Bihari                                    ne Nepali    bi Bislama            ia Interlingua         nl Dutch    bn Bengali; Bangla    in Indonesian          no Norwegian    bo Tibetan            ie Interlingue    br Breton             ik Inupiak             oc Occitan                          is Icelandic           om (Afan) Oromo    ca Catalan            it Italian             or Oriya    co Corsican           ja Japanese    cs Czech              jw Javanese            pa Punjabi    cy Welsh                                     pl Polish                          ka Georgian            ps Pashto, Pushto    da Danish             kk Kazakh              pt Portuguese    de German             kl Greenlandic    dz Bhutani            km Cambodian           qu Quechua                          rw Kinyarwanda    el Greek              kn Kannada             rm Rhaeto-Romance    en English            ko Korean              rn Kirundi    eo Esperanto          ks Kashmiri            ro Romanian    es Spanish            ku Kurdish             ru Russian    et Estonian           ky Kirghiz    eu Basque                          la Latin    fa Persian            ln Lingala    fi Finnish            lo Laothian    fj Fiji               lt Lithuanian    fo Faeroese           lv Latvian, Lettish    fr French    fy FrisianVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 65]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997    sa Sanskrit           ta Tamil               ug Uigar    sd Sindhi             te Telugu              uk Ukrainian    sg Sangro             tg Tajik               ur Urdu    sh Serbo-Croatian     th Thai                uz Uzbek    si Singhalese         ti Tigrinya    sk Slovak             tk Turkmen             vi Vietnamese    sl Slovenian          tl Tagalog             vo Volapuk    sm Samoan             tn Setswana    sn Shona              to Tonga               wo Wolof    so Somali             tr Turkish    sq Albanian           ts Tsonga              xh Xhosa    sr Serbian            tt Tatar    ss Siswati            tw Twi                 yi Yiddish    st Sesotho                                   yo Yoruba    su Sundanese    sv Swedish                                   za Zhuang    sw Swahili                                   zh Chinese                                                 zu ZuluB. SLP Certificates   Certificates may be used in SLP in order to distribute the public   keys of trusted protected scopes.  Assuming public keys, this   appendix discusses the use of such certificates in the Service   Location Protocol.   Possession of the private key of a protected scope is equivalent to   being a trusted SA. The trustworthiness of the protected scope   depends upon all of these private keys being held by trusted hosts,   and used only for legitimate service registrations and   deregistrations.   With access to the proper Certificate Authority (CA), DAs and UAs do   not need (in advance) hold public keys which correspond to these   protected scopes.  They do require the public key of the CA. The CA   produces certificates using its unique private key.  This private key   is not shared with any other system, and must remain secure.  The   certificates declare that a given protected scope has a given public   key, as well as the expiration date of the certificate.   The ASCII (mail-safe) string format for the certificate is the   following list of tag and value pairs:      "certificate-alg=" 1*ASN1CHAR       CRLF      "scope-charset="   1*DIGIT          CRLF      "scope="           1*RADIX-64-CHAR  CRLF      "timestamp="       16HEXDIGIT       CRLFVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 66]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997      "public-key="      1*RADIX-64-CHAR  CRLF      "cert-digest="     1*RADIX-64-CHAR  CRLF      ASN1CHAR          = DIGIT | '.'      HEXDIGIT          = DIGIT | 'a'..'f' | 'A'..'F'      RADIX-64-CHAR     = DIGIT | 'a'..'z' | 'A'..'Z' | '+' | '/' | '='   The radix-64 notation is described inRFC 1521 [7].  Spaces are   ignored in the computation of the binary value corresponding to a   Radix-64 string.  If the value for scope, public-key or cert-digest   is greater than 72 characters, the Radix-64 notation may be broken up   on to separate lines.  The continuation lines must be preceded by one   or more spaces.  Only the tags listed above may start in the first   column of the certificate string.  This removes ambiguity in parsing   the Radix-64 values (since the tags consist of legal Radix-64   values.)   The certificate-alg is the ASN.1 string for the Object Identifier   value of the algorithm used to produce the "cert-digest".  The   scope-charset is a decimal representation of the MIBEnum value for   the character set in which the scope is represented.   The radix-64 encoding of the scope string will allow the ASCII   rendering of a scope string any character set.   The 8 byte NTP format timestamp is represented as 16 hex digits.   This timestamp is the time at which the certificate will expire.   The format for the public key will depend on the type of cryptosystem   used, which is identified by the certificate-alg.  When the CA   generated the certificate holding the public key being obtained, it   used the message digest algorithm identified by certificate-alg to   calculate a digest D on the string encoding of the certificate,   excepting the cert-digest.  The CA then encrypted this value using   the CA's private key to produce the cert-digest, which is included in   the certificate.   The CA generates the certificate off-line.  The mechanism to   distibute certificates is not specified in the Service Location   Protocol, but may be in the future.  The CA specifies the algorithms   to use for message digest and public key decryption.  The DA or SA   need only obtain the certificate, have a preconfigured public key for   the CA and support the algorithm specified in the certificate-alg in   order to obtain certified new public keys for protected scopes.   The DA or UA may confirm the certificate by calculating the message   digest D, using the message digest algorithm identified by the   certificate-alg.  The input to the message digest algorithm is theVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 67]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   string encoding of the certificate, excepting the cert-digest.  The   cert-digest is decrypted using the CA's public key to produce D'. If   D is the same as D', the certificate is legitimate.  The public-key   for the protected scope may be used until the expiration date   indicated by the certificate timestamp.   The certificate may be distributed along untrusted channels, such as   email or through file transfer, as it must be verified anyhow.  The   CA's public key must be delivered using a trusted channel.C. Example of deploying SLP security using MD5 and RSA   In our site, we have a protected scope "CONTROLLED".  We generate a   private key - public key pair for the scope, using RSA. The private   key is maintained on a secret key ring by all SAs in the protected   scope.  The public key is available to all DAs which support the   protected scope and to all UAs which will use it.   In order to register or deregister a URL, the data required to be   authenticated (as described insection 4.3) is digestified using MD5   [22] to create a digital signature, then encrypted by RSA with the   protected scope's private key.  The output of RSA is used in the    authenticator data field of the authenticator block.   The DA or UA discovers the appropriate method for verifying the   authentication by looking inside the authentication block.  Suppose   that the "md5WithRSAEncryption" [4] algorithm has to be used to   verify the signed data.  The DA or UA calculates the message digest   of the URL Entry by using md5, exactly as the SA did.  The   authenticator block is decrypted using the public key for the   "CONTROLLED" scope, which is stored in the public key ring of the UA   or DA under the name "CONTROLLED".  If the digest calculated by the   UA or DA matches that of the SA, the URL Entry has been validated.D. Example of use of SLP Certificates by mobile nodes   Say a mobile node needs to make use of protected scopes.  The mobile   node is first preconfigured by adding a single public key to its   public key ring:  We will call it the CA-Key.  This key will be used   to obtain SLP certificates in the format described inAppendix B.   The corresponding private key will be used by the CA to create the   certificates in the necessary format.   The CA might be operated by a system administrator using a computer   which is not connected to any networks.  The certificate's duration   will depend on the policy of the site.  The duration, scope, and   public key for the protected scope, are used as input to 'md5sum'.   This sum is then encrypted with RSA using the CA's private key.  TheVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 68]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   radix 64 encoding of this is added to the mail-safe string based   certificate encoding defined inAppendix B.   The certificate, say for the protected scope "CONTROLLED" could be   made available to the mobile node.  For example, it might be on a web   page.  The mobile node could then process the certificate in order to   obtain the public key for the CONTROLLED scope.  There is still no   reason to *trust* this key is really the one to use (as inAppendixC).  To trust it, calculate the md5 checksum of the ascii encoded   certificate, excluding the cert-digest.  Next, decrypt the cert-   digest using the CA's public key and RSA. If the cert-digest matches   the output of MD5, the certificate may be trusted (until it expires).   The mobile node requires only one key (CA-key) in order to obtain   others dynamically and make use of protected scopes.  Notice that we   do not define any method for access control by arbitrary UAs to SAs   in protected scopes.E. Appendix:  For Further Reading   Three related resource discovery protocols are NBP and ZIP which are   part of the AppleTalk protocol family [12], the Legato Resource   Administration Platform [25], and the Xerox Clearinghouse system   [20].  Domain names and representation of addresses are used   extensively in the Service Location Protocol.  The references for   these are RFCs 1034 and 1035 [17,18].  Example of a discovery   protocol for routers include Router Discovery [10] and Neighbor   Discovery [19].Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 69]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997References   [1] Unicode Technical Report #4.  The unicode standard, version 1.1       (volumes 1 and 2).  Technical Report (ISBN 0-201-56788-1) and       (ISBN 0-201-60845-6), Unicode Consortium, 1994.   [2] Alexander, S. and R. Droms.  DHCP Options and BOOTP Vendor       Extensions.RFC 2131, March 1997.   [3] Atkinson, R.  IP Encapsulating Security Payload.RFC 1827,       August 1995.   [4] Balenson, D.  Privacy Enhancement for Internet Electronic       Mail:  Part III: Algorithms, Modes, and Identifiers.RFC 1423,       February 1993.   [5] Berners-Lee, T. and D. Connolly.  Hypertext Markup Language -       2.0.RFC 1866, November 1995.   [6] Berners-Lee, T., L. Masinter, and M. McCahill.  Uniform Resource       Locators (URL).RFC 1738, December 1994.   [7] Borenstein, N. and N. Freed.  MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail       Extensions) Part One:  Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing       the Format of Internet Message Bodies.RFC 2045, November 1996.   [8] Bradner, Scott.  Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate       Requirement Levels.BCP 14,RFC 2119, March 1997.   [9] CCITT.  Specification of the Abstract Syntax Notation One       (ASN.1).  Recommendation X.208, 1988.   [10] Deering, Stephen E., editor.  ICMP Router Discovery Messages.RFC 1256, September 1991.   [11] Droms, Ralph.  Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.RFC 2131,        March 1997.   [12] Gursharan, S., R. Andrews, and A. Oppenheimer.  Inside        AppleTalk. Addison-Wesley, 1990.   [13] Guttman, E.  The service:  URL scheme, November 1996.        Work In Progress.   [14] Geneva ISO.  Code for the representation of names of languages.        ISO 639:1988 (E/F), 1988.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 70]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997   [15] ISO 8879, Geneva.  Information Processing -- Text and Office        Systems - Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).        <URL:http://www.iso.ch/cate/d16387.html>, 1986.   [16] Mills, D.  Simple Network Time Protocol (SNTP) Version 4 for        IPv4, IPv6 and OSI.RFC 2030, October 1996.   [17] Mockapetris, P.  Domain Names - Concepts and Facilities. STD 13,RFC 1034, November 1987.   [18] Mockapetris, P.  DOMAIN NAMES - IMPLEMENTATION AND        SPECIFICATION.  STD 13,RFC 1035, November 1987.   [19] Narten, T., E. Nordmark, and W. Simpson.  Neighbor Discovery for        IP version 6 (IPv6).RFC 1970, August 1996.   [20] Oppen, D. and Y. Dalal.  The clearinghouse:  A decentralized        agent for locating named objects in a distributed environment.        Technical Report Tech. Rep. OPD-78103, Xerox Office Products        Division, 1981.   [21] Perkins, C.  DHCP Options for Service Location Protocol, August        1996. Work In Progress.   [22] Rivest, Ronald.  The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm.RFC 1321,        April 1992.   [23] Schneier, Bruce.  Applied Cryptography:  Protocols, Algorithms,        and Source Code in C.  John Wiley, New York, NY, USA, 1994.   [24] X/Open Preliminary Specification.  File System Safe UCS        Transformation Format (FSS_UTF).  Technical Report Document        Number:  P316, X/Open Company Ltd., 1994.   [25] Legato Systems.  The Legato Resource Administration Platform.        Legato Systems, 1991.Veizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 71]

RFC 2165               Service Location Protocol               June 1997Authors' Addresses   Questions about this memo can be directed to:   John Veizades                       Erik Guttman   @Home Network                       Sun Microsystems   385 Ravendale Dr.                   Gaisbergstr. 6   Mountain View, CA 94043             69115 Heidelberg Germany   Phone: +1 415 944 7332              Phone: +1 415 336 6697   Fax:   +1 415 944 8500   Email: veizades@home.com            Email: Erik.Guttman@eng.sun.com   Charles E. Perkins                  Scott Kaplan   Sun Microsystems   2550 Garcia Avenue                  346 Fair Oaks St.   Mountain View, CA  94043            San Francisco, CA 94110   Phone: +1 415 336 7153              Phone: +1 415 285 4526   Fax:   +1 415 336 0670   EMail: cperkins@Corp.sun.com        Email: scott@catch22.comVeizades, et. al.           Standards Track                    [Page 72]

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