Internet-based Desktops: Collaborative and Recordable

This paper addresses issues that arise when a peer group, distributed in time and space, uses the Internet to configure and execute distributed desktop-based applications and tasks. The paper provides solutions and Tcl/Tk implementations to support (1) peer-to-peer communication/control of distributed software and computing resources over the Internet; (2) recording and playback of interactive execution of Tcl/Tk applications and collaborative sessions. Internet-based experiments, ranging from collaborative archival applications to interactive tutorials, demonstrate the scope of distributed-team collaborative projects, and the utility of single-user and tutor-student recording and playback sessions. 1 Introduction The Internet and the on-going evolution of the world-wide web is expected to evolve into a network without technologic, geographic or time barriers -- a network over which partners, customers and employees can collaborate at any time, from anywhere, with anyone. Issues of co..