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<rfc category="info" ipr="full3978" docName="draft-rezafard-esds-problem-statement-03">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="ESDS Problem Statement">
    Extensible Supply-chain Discovery Service Problem Statement
    </title>

    <author initials='A.R.' surname="Rezafard" fullname='Ali Rezafard'>
      <organization>Afilias Canada</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>204-4141 Yonge Street</street>
          <city>Toronto</city> 
          <region>ON</region>
          <code>M2P 2A8</code>
          <country>CA</country>
        </postal>
        <phone>+1-416-646-3304</phone>
        <email>arezafar@ca.afilias.info</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <date month="November" year="2008" />
    <area>Applications</area>
    <!-- <workgroup></workgroup> -->
    <keyword>RFC</keyword>
    <keyword>Request for Comments</keyword>
    <keyword>I-D</keyword>
    <keyword>Internet-Draft</keyword>
    <keyword>Problem Statement</keyword>
    <keyword>RFID</keyword>
    <keyword>Discovery Service</keyword>
    <abstract>
    ##s/problem/abstract##
    </abstract>
  </front>
  
  <middle>
    <section anchor="intro" title="Introduction">
        ##s/problem/intro##
        <section anchor="intro-supplychain" title="Introduction: Supply chain applications as one driver">
        ##s/problem/intro-supplychain##
        </section>
        <section anchor="what" title="What is ESDS?">
        ##s/problem/what##
        </section>
        <section anchor="terminology" title="Terminology">
        ##s/problem/terminology##
        </section>
        <section anchor="statement" title="Problem Statement">
        ##s/problem/statement##
        </section>
        <section anchor="description" title="Description">
        ##s/problem/description##
        </section>
    </section>
    <section anchor="concerns" title="Internet Concerns">
    ##s/problem/specialized##
        <section anchor="treewalking" title="Public Networks and Tree-Walking Concerns">
        ##s/problem/treewalking##
        </section>
        <section anchor="bootstrapping" title="Bootstrapping Concerns">
        ##s/problem/bootstrapping##
        </section>
    </section>
    <section anchor="standards" title="Other Standards">
    ##s/problem/standards##
    </section>
    <section anchor="sdo" title="Related Standards Development Organizations">
    ##s/problem/sdo##
    </section>
    <section anchor="objectives" title="Objectives">
    ##s/problem/objectives##
    </section>
    <section anchor="challenges" title="Technical Challenges">
    ##s/problem/challenges##
    </section>
    <section anchor="research" title="Related Activities">
    ##s/problem/research##
    </section>

    <!-- section anchor="conventions" title="Conventions Used In This Document">
    ##s/concepts/conventions##
    </section -->

    <section anchor="acknowledgements" title="Acknowledgements">
    ##s/problem/acknowledgements##
    </section>

    <section anchor="contributors" title="Contributors">
    ##s/problem/contributors##
    </section>

    <section anchor="iana" title="IANA Considerations">
    ##s/problem/iana##
    </section>

    <section anchor="security" title="Security Considerations">
    ##s/problem/security##
    </section>

    <!-- section title="Glossary">
    ##s/problem/glossary##
    </section -->
  </middle>

  <back>
    <references title='Normative References'>
      ##r/reference.RFC.2629##
      ##r/reference.RFC.4930##
    </references>

    <references title='Informative References'>
      ##r/reference.bridge-lookup-requirements##
      ##r/reference.bridge-discovery-services-design##
      ##r/reference.bridge-network-confidentiality##
      ##r/reference.bridge-security-analysis##
      ##r/reference.epcglobal-ons##
      ##r/reference.epcglobal-epcis##
      ##r/reference.TDS##
      ##r/reference.esds-commands##
      ##r/reference.esds-schema##
      ##r/reference.jxta-protocols##
      ##r/reference.ecrit-mapping-arc##
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