IPP Mail Archive: IPP> FW: Bluetooth and SLP [nothing so far

IPP> FW: Bluetooth and SLP [nothing so far...]

From: McDonald, Ira (imcdonald@sharplabs.com)
Date: Fri Jan 05 2001 - 19:16:08 EST

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    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@3com.com [mailto:Ned_Plasson@3com.com]
    Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:27 AM
    To: James Kempf
    Cc: srvloc@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@eng.sun.com> on 01/04/2001 09:39:40 AM

    Please respond to James Kempf <James.Kempf@eng.sun.com>

    Sent by: James Kempf <James.Kempf@eng.sun.com>

    To: srvloc@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

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