TI-RPC

Transport-independent remote procedure call (TI-RPC) was developed as part of the UNIX System V Release 4 (SVR4). It makes RPC applications transport-independent by allowing a single binary version of a distributed program to run on multiple transports. Previously, with transport-specific RPC, the transport was bound at compile time so that applications could not use other transports unless the program was rebuilt. With TI-RPC, applications can use new transports if the system administrator updates the network configuration file and restarts the program. Thus, no changes are required to the binary application.