title: Doing research on SOA LoadBalancing NameServers
body: <p>When looking at SOA (Service Oriented Architectures) the main problems seems to be distributing a services load across multiple hosts and then managing these hosts (taking hosts off line or adding new hosts)</p>
  
  <p>When one service talks to another it should not need to know any host information (at the application level). Rather the SOA Environment should be able to route a service request to a specific host based on the hosts current load characteristics (so it must know all hots a service is running on and their relative load).</p>
  
  <p>Are there any existing open protocols for service to report their existence and load to an SOA Environment.</p>