Candidate Existing Management Protocol for benchmarking/scoping AMQP's management protocol

DMTF Web-Based Enterprise Management and Service Location Protocol overview:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-Based_Enterprise_Management  (aka WBEM)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service_Location_Protocol  (aka SLP)

Possibly pertinent exemplars to yesterday's discussion about Discovery using Abstract Types and Attribute are the following RFC regard SLP
Service Location Protocol, Version 2:    http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2608
Service Templates and Service: Schemes:  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2609
Vendor Extensions for Service Location Protocol, Version 2:  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3224