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PML
Version 0.01, 10/17/2003
Copyright (C)2003 Steven Hessing ([e-mail])
See the file LICENSE for licensing details.

Welcome to the Peer-to-Peer Multicast Library (PML). This is the first,
alpha release of PML. It provides a proof of concept. It incorporates most
of the technologies that are planned and includes two test applications. 
For more information on the PML project please vist http://pml.sf.net/

This release includes support for Reed-Solomon, multicast and tigertree.
It does not yet support Single Source Multicast (SSM) because Linux
support for IGMPv3 is immature.

PML defines two protocols: 
- PMSP: Peer to Peer Multicast Session Protocol, used to describe 
  each multicast session. 
- PMTP: Peer to Peer Multicast Transport Protocol, used to transmit
  the actual file

The use of the PMSP protocol is optional because session information
can also be transmitted by other means.

Because IGMPv3 support is not in the standard linux kernel, PML will be
ported to C# to allow further development to be done under
Windows 2000/XP/2003. These OS's do support IGMPv3.