I believe I also havenÔÇÖt made you aware of the release of Web Services Dynamic Discovery (WS-Discovery) protocol. It has been released this February.
The specification defines a multicast discovery protocol to locate services. By default, probes are sent to a multicast group, and target services that match return a response directly to the requester. To scale to a large number of endpoints, the protocol defines the multicast suppression behavior if a discovery proxy is available on the network. To minimize the need for polling, target services that wish to be discovered send an announcement when they join and leave the network.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/webservice...-discovery.asp for the abstract and the details.
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