[p2p-hackers] amicima MFPNet status

[Matthew Kaufman]

Status update for folks wondering what's amicima has been up to...

It took about a month longer than we'd hoped, but the MFPNet and MFPAC code
has many more features, more scalability, and is much cleaner code than we'd
expected to get done for the first release as a result. In fact, we took the
time to almost completely rewrite the entire MFPNet layer from improved
specifications given our experience using the first version in-house for the
last year.

The biggest feature that MFPNet brings is the ability to open MFP flows
directly to named endpoints without worrying about their IP address(es) or
whether or not NAT/firewall traversal is needed... it "just works", and
supports unique endpoint namespaces in each domain as well, with full
inter-domain interoperability. MFPAC builds on this, providing services for
authenticated one-to-many communication of control or status messages,
designed for the rapid implementation of secure peer-to-peer call setup,
file availability, or presence updating, among other applications.

The source code (GPL, with an available commercial license) should be
released in less than a week (just cleaning up some final documentation and
checking for any hiding bugs), but for now the API headers for MFPNet and
its companion MFPAC are available on our website at
http://www.amicima.com/developers/downloads.html 
and some additional documentation will be up on the website over the next
few days.

Once the MFPNet layer is shipped we'll be working to quickly get at least
one demo application out in source and executable form so everyone can get a
chance to play with how it performs in real life.

Then, depending on time and funding, we'll be moving on to finalizing our
MFPGroup secure DHT-based many-to-many communication layer.

For those who've already starting experimenting with or using the MFP layer,
we'll be releasing an update with some bug fixes and minor feature
enhancements this week as well.

Matthew Kaufman
matthew at matthew.at
http://www.amicima.com