# Historical Perspective

The history of this technology begins with Alert on LAN (AoL), developed by IBM and Intel in 1997. The original AoL was uni-directional, enabling reporting from clients to consoles only. Intel added bi-directionality with AoL2 in 1999, providing additional remote control and acknowledgement capabilities. This allowed connection-based, bi-directional communication between the management console and the managed client.

The technology was subsequently standardized by the Pre-OS working group of DMTF in June 2001 as the ASF Specification (now v1.03). A revised specification that adds security to the remote-control operations, ASF v2.0, is expected to be released the summer of 2002.

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