Gathering requirements from remote users

We describe a distributed requirements engineering environment using computer aided software engineering tools linked together through the Internet. We created this distributed requirements engineering environment using Microsoft's Personal Web Server (PWS), Microsoft's Open Database Connectivity (OPEC) technology, Netscape Communicator, Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Microsoft's Access97 database, and a set of PERL scripts that are executed by users of the environment to perform database operations. We show how we added basic security features to the Internet accessible database.