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, a Pool Registrar (PR) is a component of the

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RSerPool Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) is a computer protocol framework for management of and access to multiple, coordinated (pooled) servers. RSerPool is an IETF standard, which has been developed by the IETF RSerPool Working Group and documented in ...

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which manages a handlespace. PRs are also denoted as ENRP server or

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(NS). The responsibilities of a PR are the following: * Register

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s into a handlespace, * Deregister

s from a handlespace, * Monitor

s by keep-alive messages, * Provide handle resolution (i.e. server selection) to

Pool User A Pool User (PU) is a client in the Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) framework. In order to use the service provided by a pool, a PU has to proceed the following steps: * Ask a Pool Registrar for server selection (the Pool Registrar will return ...

s, * Audit the consistency of a handlespace between multiple PRs, * Synchronize a handlespace with another PR.

Standards Documents

Aggregate Server Access Protocol (ASAP)

Endpoint Handlespace Redundancy Protocol (ENRP)

Aggregate Server Access Protocol (ASAP) and Endpoint Handlespace Redundancy Protocol (ENRP) Parameters

Reliable Server Pooling Policies

External links

Thomas Dreibholz's Reliable Server Pooling (RSerPool) Page

Internet protocols Internet Standards