History
ADC was created to allow an extensible protocol and to address some shortcomings of the DC protocol. It was initiated by Jacek Sieka, under the influence of Jan Vidar Krey's DCTNG draft. The first revision of ADC came in 2004 and the first official version in 2007-12-01.
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