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I agree strongly with Jim on this issue. FPL does not have unlimited funding and resources. Quite the contrary, given that only 197 firms out of the thousands that use FIX are financially supporting the development of the protocol, it is clear that we have to weigh the cost vs. the benefit of new initiatives carefully. Adding the functionality that you suggest is something that would have a fairly significant cost. We can't just click a few links, type in a few column names, and have a custom message catalog database implemented. We would have to pay web and database developers familiar with this site's custom architecture to make these changes, and FPL resources would be needed to QA the resulting code and manage its deployment. I can think of plenty of better uses for FPL membership dollars. Even if this could be done for free, Jim's concerns still stand. I want to encourage standardization, not promote fragmentation. [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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
