This software is an implementaion of the scalable QOS routing protocol developed in the Real Internet Consortium (RIC). The information is available through http://www.real-internet.org. The routing daemon (ricd) works on the top of MRT (Multi-threaded Routing Toolkit) developed at Merit Network, Inc, which is available at http://www.merit.edu/~mrt. A kernel support for QOS routing this release works with would be available through RIC. Masaki Hirabaru Merit Network, Inc. .