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Networking

KQML--speaking agents can communicate directly with other agents (addressing them by symbolic name), broadcast their messages or solicit the services of fellow agents or facilitators for the delivery of a message by using the appropriate performatives. KQML allows for both synchronous/asynchronous interactions and blocking/non-blocking message sending on behalf of an application through assignment of the appropriate values for those parameters in a KQML message.