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Foil 8 TANGO 2 Core Enhancements III

From Information and Communications ARL MSRC Year 3 Annual Review ARL MSRC PET Annual Review and Planning Workshop, Aberdeen, MD, -- August 3-5, 1999. by Geoffrey Fox, David Bernholdt, Roman Markowski, Doug Fein


"Awareness" package (AOL like Instant messenger to support dynamic collaboration -- expand use of Tango)
  • Dynamic directory service implemented to track users and communities with "voluntary" participation, multilevel status definition, privacy protection
  • Dynamic collaboratory server selection and migration based on server status tracking via directory service
  • PC-only at present (unix support for agents lacking)
Session recording capability
  • Partial Integration with the LecCorder package
Enhanced session management and security
  • All permissions can be set per application session in addition to global settings
  • Role- based privileges



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