Overcoming some significant information exchange limitations arising from a lack of acceptably open standards (e.g. Collaborative Computing services);

Providing NATO-wide coherence of security and interconnection policies and the associated security services needed to allow the widest possible use to be made of existing interoperability services (e.g. http). This would allow over-restrictive security constraints limiting information access to be relaxed;

Standardizing more advanced interoperability mechanisms such as RPCs, other distributed computing mechanisms and database replication services (see Section A.3); these are also contingent on the security developments above;

Accommodating emerging requirements for the exchange of multimedia-based services between nations.