--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
