Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

Eugene Zaikonnikov wrote:

> So far I've just skimmed through BEEP Core and CAP specifications, but
>
>it looks like BEEP protocols have broader scope. They seem to go much
>deeper into defining message data types (Etiquette protocols do not
>define content representation), and use several transmission channels
>for communication. Introduction of secure transport support and
>sibling protocols (which are similar to BEEP channels) to Etiquette
>could in theory permit implementation of the BEEP protocols, but my
>initial feeling is that the underlying models are too different to be
>mapped naturally.
>  
>
Ok.  Thanks for the info.  My impression of beep so far is that it's 
basically a useful and reasonable idea but that its use of XML is 
somewhat gratuitous.

miles