Use of proprietary transaction protocols inhibits interoperability and flexibility. These factors restrict the widespread use of the transaction programming paradigm, and limit development of new distributed business applications on the internet. TIP is a lightweight transaction protocol employing the two-pipe model. Being useful and simple to implement, TIP is expected to be widely deployed. It will facilitate the widespread use of the transaction model, simplifying distributed applications programming.
TIP includes methods which render it particularly applicable for use with the internet.
The net of this is to increase business application opportunities. Particularly, TIP will enable new internet business transactions which involve access to multiple web servers. In the absence of any other practical widely-implemented standard transaction protocol, TIP represents a realistic opportunity for ubiquitous heterogeneous distributed transaction processing. Distributed Internet Application Transaction Protocol 1. All of these standards employ a tightly-coupled transaction protocol and application communications mechanism.