A distributed directory service and file system that allows users to construct customized views of available resources while taking advantage of the structure imposed by others See Gopher, WAIS and World-Wide Web
A distributed filesystem which provides the user with the ability to create multiple views of a single collection of files distributed across the Internet Prospero provides a file naming system, and file access is provided by existing access methods (e g , anonymous FTP and NFS) The Prospero protocol is also used for communication between clients and servers in the archie system