The ICAAP Project, Part Three: OSF distributed computing environment Available to Purchase

Outlines the use of distributed computing environment (DCE) software in the Inter Committee on Institutional Co‐operation Authentication and Authorisation project (ICAAP) project, which addresses the issues that arise in a distributed environment such as ensuring similar settings on all linked computers. Discusses the development of this program and the uses it can be put to. Suggests that a lot of this technology was ahead of its time, and its real value is only now being understood.