The Touring Machine System: An Open Distributed Platform for
Information Networking Applications
The Touring Machine system is an open, extensible software platform to enable rapid
construction of distributed multimedia, third-party, multi-supplier applications that
operate across heterogeneous network transport fabrics to potentially mobile users. The
goals of this project are
- to overcome the sources of complexity obstructing timely and profitable operation of
open and extensible public telecommunication networks,
- to enable multimedia, personalized, nomadic and multi-point applications to emerge
making maximum use of those public networks, and
- to provide reliable, secure, and flexible set of infrastructure networking services that
facilitate open application development, deployment and operation.
The architectural principles for information networking synthesized, validated and
extended in this project are consistent with industry efforts at open distributed
processing (ODP). This paper describes the functionality of the system made available to
application programmers and the underlying distributed architecture.
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