and <a href="mailto:yamuna@cs.wustl.edu">Yamuna
Krishnamurthy</a></h4></center>

<center>Center for Distributed Object Computing
<br>Washington University in St.Louis</center>

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<h3>
Overview</h3>
Traditionally DOC Middleware has provided facilities to design application-level
objects at a higher level of abstraction, away from low-level details of
network programming and distribution. The aspect of multimedia application
that could benefit from this is an interoperable standard design of m