Re: [amsat-bb] AO40rcv and the Kenwood TS-2000

[Douglas Braun & Nadia Papakonstantinou <doug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hmm.  It's seems to be starting to get complicated.

Here are a couple of desirable characteristics of such
an interface:

1:  It should be possible to use a regular serial port as the 
     communication link.  (Meaning there is a well-defined
     byte stream encoding of the protocol.)

2:  The interface should be simple enough that it is
     possible to implement it in a PIC microprocessor
     (~2k assembly language instructions).

If we start throwing too many technical buzzwords at the problem,
it may be hard to meet these requirements.

Doug
NA1DB


At 11:40 AM 4/5/01 , John Melton - Sun UK - ENS wrote:

>Isn't this a good example of specifying an abstract interface for the 
>application protocols and then specifying different bindings to different 
>transport methods.
>
>A good way to go may be to define the application protocol using XML.
>
>If we then stated that every application written implements the XML binding 
>using a TCP/IP socket connection as the minimum,  this would allow interworking 
>with any other apppication (written to the spec) running on any platform.

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