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Re: On IETF policy for protocol registries

2016-01-22 10:04:54
On 22 Jan 2016, at 16:55, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

The only problem with this approach is that you don't always want to
burn a port on the local machine. Let us say that Bob has permission
to deploy multiple Web Services. Alice is willing to cut as many SRV
records as he likes but she doesn't want to give him multiple ports
because she has to reconfigure the firewall for each one.

That is what makes use of .well-known the natural adjunct to SRV.

This is why we in 2005 started working on URI that is the extension of SRV 
records in the form of being able to redirect same owner as SRV but to a URI 
and not only port and host. That way multiple services can run on same port 
(for the named service) but with different path.

   Patrik

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