--On 10/10/00 08:55:23 AM -0500 Chris Lonvick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:

> Our charter does require us to transport the current messages.  I do
> understand that there is a strong contingent of people on this list
> who would like to establish a standard message format (XML has been
> mentioned) and I am sympathetic to that cause.  While that is outside
> the scope of this working group at this time, I'd like for the
> transports that we do agree upon to be able to also transport any
> future event message formats.

Perhaps the new protocol should have a message format ID field, with 
mandatory support for a free-form text format. This would allow future 
specifications of message formats, and interoperability between differing 
versions thereof.

-- 
Carson Gaspar





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