Innosoft International, Inc.

1050 Lakes Drive West Covina CA 91790 US chris.newman@innosoft.com

Netscape Communications

501 East Middlefield Road Mail Stop MV-029 Mountain View CA 94043 US jgmyers@netscape.com

The Application Configuration Access Protocol (ACAP) is designed to support remote storage and access of program option, configuration and preference information. The data store model is designed to allow a client relatively simple access to interesting data, to allow new information to be easily added without server re-configuration, and to promote the use of both standardized data and custom or proprietary data. Key features include "inheritance" which can be used to manage default values for configuration settings and access control lists which allow interesting personal information to be shared and group information to be restricted.