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Technical Report: The Notification Service Transfer Protocol (NSTP): Infrastructure for Synchronous Groupware The Notification Service Transfer Protocol (NSTP): Infrastructure for Synchronous Groupware Technical Report #: 96-13 Author(s): Mark Day, John F. Patterson, David Mitchell Full Citation: Submitted for the Sixth International World-Wide Web Conference. Abstract A Collaborative User Experience Technical Report: more about CUE... The Notification Service Transfer Protocol (NSTP) is an infrastructure for building synchronous groupware. It is based on the idea of a coordinating notification server that is independent of any given synchronous groupware application. NSTP is intended in some ways to be the synchronous analog of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). We describe the features of NSTP, emphasizing similarities and differences with respect to HTTP, and present our rationale for including those features. Full Report Only available as reprint. For more information, or to order a Technical Report, contact us.