The irish (Tigger | http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/research/research_projects/tigger/welcome.html) _(MIA) project is developing an *(OS) and framework for the construction of a family of _(distributed) object-support platforms. A Tigger paper, _("\"Extensible Systems - The Tigger Approach\"" | http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/21593.html).