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The Interactive Sharing Transfer Protocol Version 1.0

Date:
October 1997

MERL Contacts: Richard (Dick) Waters, Derek Schwenke

Authors: Richard C. Waters, David B. Anderson, Derek L. Schwenke

Where Published: 'Design of the Interactive Sharing Transfer Protocol', WET ICE '97 -- IEEE Sixth Workshops on Enabling Technologies for Collaborative Enterprises: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, June 1997, pp. 140-147.

Abstract: The Interactive Sharing Transfer Protocol (ISTP) supports the sharing of information about a virtual world among a group of user processes. ISTP allows the interoperation of diverse systems running on diverse hardware. The key advantages of ISTP are that it supports (1) real-time interaction between users, (2) the communication of every kind of information required in a virtual world, and (3) scalability to large numbers of simultaneous users and large virtual worlds.

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