“New Standard is Instrumental for Next Generation Management
Via the Web.”
“The Service Location Protocol is a decentralized, lightweight,
scalable and extensible Internet protocol for service discovery
within a site. For organizations, the biggest key to SLP v2 is that
it allows the discovery ofresources and devices in both
directions.
“In doing this, it eliminates the need for a hierarchical,
static directory — thereby making it a perfect enabling technology
for managing network resources in an environment of perpetual
change.”
“The SLP v2 standard is a critical development for all aspects
of network and device management over the network,” said Brian
Sevy, vice president of marketing for Madison River Technologies.
Madison River Technologies is a strong advocate of the importance
of SLP v2. The company is using the SLP v2 standard as the basis
for a series of products and services the company intends to
release later this year.”
“As part of an undergraduate research project at Utah Valley
State College, student Matthew Peterson has written an open source
SLPv2 DA for the Linux operating system. Documentation, source
code, and binaries related to the project are available under a
BSD-style software license, which allows for free commercial and
non-commercial application.”