The Challenge of ODP

This Technical Report is a revision of an invited paper for the Berlin ODP Conference, October 1991. This paper reviews the technical challenges that have to be overcome if Open Distributed Processing (ODP) standards are to achieve the goal of enabling interworking of applications and sharing of data across computer networks spanning organizational and national boundaries. The choice of abstract data types for the ODP computational model and the provision of selective transparency in the ODP engineering model ares justified as the foundations which permit practical and efficient ODP systems to be built. The Challenge of ODP