Related work
Domain Name System
- Differences in expressiveness and architecture
Service Location Protocol
- More centralized, less spontaneous
Berkeley Service Discovery Service
- Authentication, fixed hierarchies for wide-area
Jini:
- INS for self-configuring fault-tolerant discovery
Universal Plug-and-Play & SSDP
- XML-based descriptions; INS fits well
Intentional names in other contexts
- E.g., Discover query routing, DistributedDirector