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new and advanced applications would be a more productive path. As
a starting point, they suggest that the creation of common data formats for
different types of data, particularly text, images and graphics, audio and
video, workstation displays, and data objects. Also important to devel-
oping advanced applications are mechanisms for the exchange of these
different types of data.
Suggested mechanisms include store and forward services, global file sys-
tems, interprocess communications, data broadcast, and a standardized
method for accessing databases.
4.3 Room for Improvement
Other areas in which IPv4 could