16.1 Goals of the DCE Common Inter-ORB Protocol

   DCE CIOP was designed to meet the following goals:

   • Support multi-vendor, mission-critical, enterprise-wide, ORB-based applications.

   • Leverage services provided by DCE wherever appropriate.

   • Allow efficient and straightforward implementation using public DCE APIs.

   • Preserve ORB implementation freedom.

   DCE CIOP achieves these goals by using DCE-RPC to provide message transport, while leaving the ORB responsible for message formatting, data marshaling, and operation dispatch.