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Glenn, thank you for your comments. I'd be very interested to hear if you have any suggestions on other specific extensions plug more of the gaps to a generic message format. Best, Rolf > Compared to ASCII FIX, TLV message formats FAST *is* complex. > My view is that FAST was designed to solve a problem of bandwidth > problem and it does that extremely well by using every trick in > the book (for want of a better phrase). However this does make it > a lot more complex than non-compressed self describing message > structures. > > Ideally FAST should become a commodity and one and an official > fully implemented reference implementation would go some way to > achieving that. People will always be able to differentiate their > implementations on performance. > > The proposed extensions look good to me, and plug some of the gaps > to making FAST a generic message format. > > Glenn [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
