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Service Discovery Community Group

Group closed 2023-12-11

The internet has several service discovery mechanisms, such as SRV records and mDNS which are not exposed to web clients. The purpose of this CG will be to define a browser API allowing service discovery via these and other relevant mechanisms.

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The internet has several service discovery mechanisms, such as SRV records and mDNS which are not exposed to web clients.

The purpose of this CG will be to define a browser API allowing service discovery via these and other relevant mechanisms.


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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2023-02-08 by Peter Linss. The following people supported its creation: Peter Linss, Bob Wyman, Laker Turner, Daniel Lipton, Scott Corzine. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

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