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Architecture for the Information Brokerage in the ACTS Project GAIA
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Network Working Group M. Blinov
Request for Comments: 2552 M. Bessonov
Category: Informational C. Clissmann
Teltec UCD-CS
Ireland
April 1999
Architecture for Information Brokerage
in the ACTS Project GAIA
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does
not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
memo is unlimited.
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This memo introduces a domain and supplier independent generic
architecture for information brokerage, designed as part of the ACTS
project GAIA (Generic Architecture for Information Availability).
1. Introduction
Today a huge number of goods and services are offered on the
electronic market by a large, and ever-increasing, number of
suppliers. However, there is still no efficient way for a customer
to find a product or information, he/she is interested in and a
supplier that can provide that product. Customers and suppliers
already can not deal with the quantity of available information by
themselves. The high heterogeneity of existing protocols, formats,
and underlying networks also limits development of the electronic
market.
This results in a demand for brokerage systems that can work as
intermediary entities between customers and content suppliers.
Brokerage systems assist a customer during the trading process and
hide the heterogeneity and distribution of information from the
customer. The design of domain and supplier independent generic
architecture for such brokerage systems is an objective of the
project GAIA (Generic Architecture for Information Availability).
GAIA received part funding from the EU ACTS programme for Research
and Technological Development. The GAIA brokerage system allows a
customer to
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