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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
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Subject: Re: multiparty, real-time, lightweight sequenced communications
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Date: 11 Feb 89 06:12:36 GMT
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In article <8879@mailgw.cc.umich.edu> emv@mailgw.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) writes:
>What's the state of the art in real-time chat programs connected
>across an internet?  The goal is something like 'party' only over
>multiple systems.  I've heard of 'phone' but don't have any more
>pointers than that, & there must be others.
>
>I'm sure it would be a good testbed for multicast protocols or some
>sort of lightweight transaction scheme.

I'm designing one of these. It actually works but it's not in alpha test
yet. State of the art? Hope so...

Can someone point me at what a multicast protocol is? If it's in an RFC,
can you tell me a site where I can grab it with FTP?

Sean
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