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Implementation

The implementation should be efficient, both for speed, and for bandwidth utilization. It should provide a good fit with existing software technology. The interface should be easy to use; details of the networking layers that lie below the primitive communicative acts should be hidden from the user. Finally, the language should be amenable to partial implementation, because simple agents may only need to handle a subset of the primitive communicative acts.