[p2p-hackers] amicima's MFP - preannouncement

[David Barrett]

Matthew --

This is great; I'm glad to hear the release is imminent.  I was *really* 
impressed with what I saw in your demo several months ago and I think 
it's great your opening up the code for others to license and use.

I'm particularly interested in the excellent work you've done with 
congestion control and link-speed determination.  However, excepting a 
couple curious flags, I didn't see these powerful features called out in 
the protocol description.  Are these handled at the MFP layer, or higher 
up in the stack?

Regardless, congratulations on taking the big step on opening it up; I 
hope to follow in your footsteps soon enough!

-david

Matthew Kaufman wrote:
> For the past year and a half here at amicima, we've been developing some new
> protocol technology particularly suited for multimedia transport and p2p
> applications. A few months ago, we made the decision to open-source this
> technology, and we've been getting it ready for public release.
> 
> The main announcement of the first big piece, the Secure Media Flow Protocol
> (MFP) implementation, is just a couple weeks away (we hope... things can
> move slowly at non-funded software startups), but in the meantime, I thought
> that folks on this list might like to get a taste of what's to come, so
> here's some links, in a shameless self-promotion of our work:
> 
> Technology overview:
>  http://www.amicima.com/technology/index.html
> 
> The downloads page:
>  http://www.amicima.com/developers/downloads.html
> (Our BSD-licensed open-source object library for doing sophisticated
> object-oriented programming in plain ANSI C is already available for
> download there, the various MFP layers will be up as soon as we can get them
> ready to ship, dual-licensed... GPL and an available commercial license for
> proprietary apps)
> 
> And some initial protocol documentation:
>  http://www.amicima.com/developers/documentation.html
> (The implementation of the protocol described here will be our next
> release... coming very soon... runs without modification on Windows, Mac OS
> X, and Unix)
> 
> We've used this to build several applications, including a Skype-like VOIP
> app that runs on Mac OS X and Windows XP. Using our underlying protocol and
> p2p libraries, a Windows VOIP app that lets you place encrypted P2P (through
> NAT) computer-to-computer calls, by name, to mobile endpoints, including
> fast file transfer that doesn't impair the quality of the voice call, took
> less than a week to whip up a working prototype. If there's demand, we'll
> probably release that as a sample app with sources, once the MFP and MFPNet
> layers and some other supporting libraries are available for download.
> 
> Matthew Kaufman
> amicima, Inc.
> matthew at amicima.com
> matthew at matthew.at
> 
> Ps. One of the reasons I'm putting this preannouncement out on the
> p2p-hackers list is that several folks on the list have mailed in the past
> asking for more information about what we're doing at amicima and when they
> can play with the technology, and I've managed to delete about half my list
> of who those people were.
> 
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