Scope

Scope is a parameter used to control and manage access by clients to servers in a network. It is the same as the Service Location Protocol scope. The control scope provides is necessary for two reasons:

• As your network, the number of clients, and the number of servers grow, it becomes necessary to partition access to those servers by the growing number of clients in order to reduce overall traffic on the network.
• It allows administrators to organize users and servers in to administrative groups

The meaning of the values of scope are defined by the administrator of the network. These values can represent any entity. Commonly, they fall along either departmental, geographical, or organizational lines.