@techreport{ilprints318,
          number = {1998-25},
            type = {Technical Report},
           title = {The Stanford InfoBus and Its Service Layers: Augmenting the Internet with Higher-Level Information Management Protocols},
          author = {M. Roscheisen and M. Baldonado and C. Chang and L. Gravano and S. Ketchpel and A. Paepcke},
       publisher = {Stanford InfoLab},
            year = {1998},
     institution = {Stanford InfoLab},
        keywords = {internet protocols, middleware, digital libraries, interoperability, heterogeneous, networked environments, information access, metadata, payment, rights management, Java/CORBA},
             url = {http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/318/},
        abstract = {The Stanford InfoBus is a prototype infrastructure developed as part of the Stanford Digital Libraries Project to extend the current Internet protocols with a suite of higher-level information management protocols. This paper surveys the five service layers pro vided by the Stanford InfoBus: protocols for managing items and collections (DLIOP), metadata (SMA), search (STARTS), payment (UPAI), and rights and obligations (FIRM).}
}