Distributed hypermedia systems are a key facility in building global netwroked information

Existing distributed hypermedia systems should be extended in the direction of third-generation hypemedia functionality satisfying the requiremnts discussed above.

By the virture of its large-scale deployment, the WWW has become a refrence model for what minimal facilities a disributed hypermedia system should provide.

Hyper-G, Microcosm, and HyOctane provide further capabilities in different dimensions that are important dor the realization of third generation distributed hypermedia systems.