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21.9 Additional Reading

Many radio and television stations now support streaming archives of their programming. A favorite of ours is the National Public Radio Archive that can be accessed at 37] is dated but gives a good overview of terminology and applicable standards. The Technology of Video and Audio Streaming by Austerberry and Starks [8] and Streaming Media Bible by Mack [75] are newer guides to actually using streaming media with current products. For a technical guide to multicast and multicast applications, see Multicast Communication: Protocols, Programming, and Applications by Wittmann and Zitterbart [131].

Many of the current streaming media tools use RTSP (Realtime Streaming Protocol) built over RTP (Realtime Transport Protocol). You can find a good overview of RTP and its enhancements in the article "Timer reconsideration for enhanced RTP scalability," by Rosenberg and Schulzrinne [100]. The Multiparty Multimedia Session Control (mmusic) Working Group [84] of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) [55] is in charge of maintaining and revising the RTSP and RTP specifications. This working group also oversees the development of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) for supporting voice over IP (VOIP) applications.