Basic needs

In the discussion we came up with the following list of basic needs, that is functionality required by application developers:
  1. resolving URLs
  2. authentication of users
  3. communication (and negotiation)
  4. distribution - eg. applets accross sites
  5. security - authentication of network identity
  6. configuration - also the delegation of configuration
  7. billing and payment
  8. application persistence - i.e. states
  9. QOS and QOT demands - e.g. bandwidth
  10. notification and monitoring

An additional need that was mentioned later on is support for multiple (natural) languages, see  [MAITS].


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