Vassilii Khachaturov wrote:
>> > I wonder if the flightgear server though
>> > should support the fsd protocol at some future point of time
>> > to be a gateway between our and VATSIM/IVAO flying...
>>
>> It's not a matter if it _should_ or not. The relevant details of the
>> protocol, at least as used by VASTIM, are 'closed',
> 
> Security by obscurity, as far as I am reading the forums... stupid.

Indeed, and I find it very annoying. Instead of developing our own ATC
network strategies if would be terribly nice if we could simply jump on
that train - without violating copyrights, NDA's or whatever ....

> Hopefully one day we'll provide an open source alternative to that.

Yes, but we should take into account that it takes a while until we
have such a network infrastructure that offers ATC service at almost
every medium large airport areound the clock  ;-)

Cheers,
        Martin.
-- 
 Unix _IS_ user friendly - it's just selective about who its friends are !
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