%0 Report
%9 Technical Report
%A Roscheisen, M.
%A Baldonado, M.
%A Chang, C.
%A Gravano, L.
%A Ketchpel, S.
%A Paepcke, A.
%D 1998
%F ilprints:318
%I Stanford InfoLab
%K internet protocols, middleware, digital libraries, interoperability, heterogeneous, networked environments, information access, metadata, payment, rights management, Java/CORBA
%T The Stanford InfoBus and Its Service Layers: Augmenting the Internet with Higher-Level Information Management Protocols
%U http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/318/
%X 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).