elf adaptive load balancing strategies</li>

</ul>

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<h3>
<a NAME="miop"></a>Multicast InterORB Protocol (MIOP)</h3>
Point of contact: <a href="mailto:fhunleth@cs.wustl.edu">Frank Hunleth</a>
<h4>
Current Status:</h4>
The final <a href="http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?ptc/2001-11-08">MIOP
specification</a> has recently been adopted by the OMG. TAO's MIOP support
(located in $TAO_ROOT/orbsvcs/orbsvcs/PortableGroup) enables servants to
receive requests sent to multicast addresses. This is performed by crea