Re: ANN: Etiquette: a protocol construction tool

* "Miles" == Miles Egan <[email protected]> writes:

Miles>  My impression of beep so far is that it's basically a useful
Miles>  and reasonable idea but that its use of XML is somewhat
Miles>  gratuitous.

That was my impression too. As Peter mentioned, limiting XML to
describing the protocols alone sounds useful enough. IMHO if the BEEP
team made a layered standard (where one could choose to either use
BEEP command syntax or roll their own), BEEP framework could become
applicable to much wider domain.

In contrast, one of the Etiquette design goals was limited scope (I
have no skills and resources to cover all aspects anyway :), so it was
decided early that the message format should be determined by
application layer. As a nice side-effect it also allows to
re-implement a number of existing documented protocols.

--
  Eugene