Hi folks,
FYI - from the IETF SLP list - for now, Bluetooth is still using
their own proprietary Bluetooth SDP (Service Discovery Protocol)
which is NOT related to MS SDSP (used in UPnP) or any publicly
available service discovery protocol.
Cheers,
- Ira McDonald, consulting architect at Sharp and Xerox
High North Inc
-----Original Message-----
From: Ned_Plasson at 3com.com [mailto:Ned_Plasson at 3com.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:27 AM
To: James Kempf
Cc: srvloc at srvloc.org
Subject: Re: Bluetooth and SLP
Hi James, et al.
I am the current chair of the Bluetooth Extended Service Discovery Profiles
(ESDP) Working Group (and a srvloc lurker) and I can tell you that we are
not
working on an SLP profile at the moment. The proprietary service discovery
mechanism, the service discovery protocol (SDP), is still being used by in
the
new profiles for identifying the existence of "extended" service discovery
mechanisms. The current SDP is limited to discovery only and the ESDP
working
group was formed to map existing service discovery and location technologies
(for example SLP, Jini, UPnP, Salutation) to Bluetooth to provide for richer
functionality.
To date work has been done on mapping UPnP and Salutation to Bluetooth.
Let me know if there is additional information you would like and I will
provide
you with what I can legally (the Bluetooth SIG has funny IPR rules so I
would
have to work within those).
Best Regards,
Ned
James Kempf <James.Kempf at eng.sun.com> on 01/04/2001 09:39:40 AM
Please respond to James Kempf <James.Kempf at eng.sun.com>
Sent by: James Kempf <James.Kempf at eng.sun.com>
To: srvloc at srvloc.org
cc: (Ned Plasson/MTN/US/3Com)
Subject: Bluetooth and SLP
Folks,
I've heard that the Bluetooth consortium is working on a new profile
that uses SLP instead of their proprietary service discovery protocol.
Unfortunately, it's a bit difficult to get information about Bluetooth
developments, so there's not much more on it. It would be really
great if we could get some feedback from the Bluetooth consortium
about what they would like to see going forward to proposed standard.
jak