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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:26:17 -0800
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Boyd Roberts wrote:
> Did anyone (anywhere) ever implement the Resource Location Protocol?
> 
>    ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc887.txt

I'm not certain, but it's functionally similar to a half-dozen other 
protocols, such as Service Location Protocol ( 
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2165.html ) which I think only Sun and Apple 
ever put into use, and then Apple abandoned for multicast DNS ( 
http://www.multicastdns.org/ ) and DNS Service Discovery ( 
http://www.dns-sd.org/ ).

Are you thinking RLP would be a particularly good marriage with Plan 9, 
or just curious?

-J