The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Requirements for Scalable DNS-SD/mDNS Extensions' (draft-ietf-dnssd-requirements-06.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Extensions for Scalable DNS Service Discovery Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Brian Haberman and Ted Lemon. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dnssd-requirements/ Technical Summary: DNS-SD/mDNS is widely used today for discovery and resolution of services and names on a local link, but there are use cases to extend DNS-SD/mDNS to enable service discovery beyond the local link. This document provides a problem statement and documents a set of requirements against which solutions can be designed and measured. Working Group Summary: The WG generally reached strong consensus on all points, including all requirements, in the document. There was some specific discussion about whether wireless links should be treated differently, but it was agreed that REQ9 should be generalised and say "SSD should operate efficiently on common link layers and link types." The evolution of the other requirements was quite smooth with good consensus. Document Quality: As a requirements document, a number of implementors/vendors have expressed an interest in working towards a common, interoperable solution for service discovery across multiple links. No specialist review was required. A separate threat analysis is being documented through draft-rafiee-dnssd-mdns-threatmodel-01. Personnel: Document shepherd: Tim Chown Responsible AD: Ted Lemon
