The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) is a protocol framework and software toolkit for reliable multicasting data objects.

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+The Multicast Dissemination Protocol (MDP) is a protocol framework and 
+software toolkit for reliable multicasting data objects.  A primary 
+design goal of MDP is to provide a reliable multicast protocol approach 
+which is suitable for reliable dissemination of data over both wireless 
+and wired networks.
+
+MDP software has been demonstrated across a range of network architecture 
+and heterogeneous conditions including; the worldwide Internet MBone, 
+bandwidth and routing asymmetric network connections, high delay satellite 
+networks, and mobile, radio networks.  MDP version 2, the latest software 
+release and ongoing work, integrates numerous multicast protocol advances 
+including highly robust, packet-based erasure correction techniques and 
+adaptive group timing mechanisms.
+
+The present MDPv2 software release has a defined API library and several 
+example working applications including a multicast file transfer applications 
+and a very basic multicast chat application. To learn more and/or download 
+the software see the following sections.