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Network Policy and Services: A Report of a Workshop on Middleware
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Network Working Group B. Aiken
Request for Comments: 2768 J. Strassner
Category: Informational Cisco Systems
B. Carpenter
IBM
I. Foster
Argonne National Laboratory
C. Lynch
Coalition for Networked Information
J. Mambretti
ICAIR
R. Moore
UCSD
B. Teitelbaum
Advanced Networks & Services, Inc.
February 2000
Network Policy and Services:
A Report of a Workshop on Middleware
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 (2000). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
An ad hoc middleware workshop was held at the International Center
for Advanced Internet Research in December 1998. The Workshop was
organized and sponsored by Cisco, Northwestern University's
International Center for Advanced Internet Research (iCAIR), IBM, and
the National Science Foundation (NSF). The goal of the workshop was
to identify existing middleware services that could be leveraged for
new capabilities as well as identifying additional middleware
services requiring research and development. The workshop
participants discussed the definition of middleware in general,
examined the applications perspective, detailed underlying network
transport capabilities relevant to middleware services, and then
covered various specific examples of middleware components. These
included APIs, authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA)
issues, policy framework, directories, resource management, networked
information discovery and retrieval services, quality of service,
Aiken, et al. Informational
