Service Discovery

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b2aa66e26b43bsvalias Service Discoveryandy (nChain), Ryan X. Charles (Money Button)1

Service discovery is separated into two phases:

  • Host Discovery is a DNS based lookup of the responsible host for a given paymail alias
  • Capability Discovery resolves the paymail service endpoint URIs from the responsible DNS host and describes the capabilities supported by a given paymail service instance

Service Discovery Process

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