Subject: [XCON] Fw: I-D ACTION:draft-cordell-lumas-04.txt

From: "Pete Cordell" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 09:13:08 -0000

FYI - This draft is now refreshed in the archives.

It took slightly longer than expected because I had an old reference to the 
IPR RFC.  Thankfully the I-D staff managed to do a good job and turn around 
my amended doc.

BTW - You may not need to read all of it to get an idea of what is being 
proposed.  You probably only need to look at the following (about 4 pages 
with example) to understand the message definition format:

   5. Lumas Message Definition
   5.1      Basic Principles of the Message Definition
   5.2      An Example Message Definition

and the following (which amounts to about 1 1/2 pages) to understand the 
default text based encoded message format:

   6. On-the-Wire Representation
   6.1      Principles of On-the-Wire Encoding
   6.2      Example On-the-Wire Representation

Regards,

Pete.
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>A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts 
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>
>
> Title : Lumas - Language for Universal Message Abstraction and 
> Specification
> Author(s) : P. Cordell
> Filename : draft-cordell-lumas-04.txt
> Pages : 44
> Date : 2006-3-9
>
> A number of methods and tools are available for defining the format
> of messages used for application protocols.  However, many of these
> methods and tools have been designed for purposes other than message
> definition, and have been adopted on the basis that they are
> available rather than being ideally suited to the task.  This often
> means that the methods make it difficult to get definitions correct,
> or result in unnecessary complexity and verbosity both in the
> definition and on the wire.
>
> Lumas - Language for Universal Message Abstraction and Specification
> - has been custom designed for the purpose of message definition.  It
> is thus easy to specify messages in a compact, extensible format that
> is readily machine manipulated to produce a compact encoding on the
> wire.
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