A method and apparatus for providing network dependent application services is
provided. In accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a first group of
one or more application service contracts specifying subscriptions to one or more
application services are provided to a community of one or more subscriber application
routers (SAR) by a first application service Provider. One or more application
delivery transports are then automatically provisioned in accordance with the one
or more application service contracts, and selected ones of the application services
are delivered through selected ones of said application delivery transports.