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An IDL is an interface definition language.  The most well-known is
CORBA.  An IDL compiler takes a specification and generates stubs
that hide the transport details.  In the case of [[microkernel/mach/MIG]], this
hides the marshalling and unmarshalling of parameters according
to [[microkernel/Mach]]'s semantics.