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The Telecommunications Information Networking Architecture (TINA) Cons
ortium is an international collaboration aiming at defining and valida
ting an open architecture for telecommunication services for the broad
band, multimedia, and information era. The architecture is based on di
stributed computing, object orientation, and other concepts and standa
rds from the telecommunications and computing industries. This paper p
rovides an introduction to TINA.