Basic needs
In the discussion we came up with the following list of basic needs, that is functionality required by application developers:- resolving URLs
- authentication of users
- communication (and negotiation)
- distribution - eg. applets accross sites
- security - authentication of network identity
- configuration - also the delegation of configuration
- billing and payment
- application persistence - i.e. states
- QOS and QOT demands - e.g. bandwidth
- notification and monitoring
An additional need that was mentioned later on is
support for multiple (natural) languages, see