Re: Service Binding Times (Re: Proxylet Downloading and metadata)

At 01:42 PM 3/28/2001, Markus Hofmann wrote:

>  (4) Service binding could be done "at runtime", i.e. when a
>      message comes in and a certain rules matches, we do
>      binding for the associated action just at this time.
In the realm of lazily-evaluated bindings, I would also consider an OPES 
device that uses the Service Location Protocol (SLP, rfc 2608) to qualify 
and make 1st contact with a service (i.e., the OPES device includes a User 
Agent for SLP).
-franco