SAMP draft document introduction

[Alasdair Allan]

Mark et al,

Mark Taylor wrote:
> ...over the last few weeks, the SAMP authors have put together a  
> draft of the standard document for the proposed Simple Applications  
> Messaging Protocol...We would ask readers of this list, and  
> particularly those who anticipate using, or wanting to use, the  
> resulting standard, to read the document and provide comments on it...

We just had an internet outage which conveniently let me sit down and  
actually read the spec cover to cover. On the whole I'm pretty happy  
with the specification...

The immediate problem I have with the document is that  I'm a little  
unsure how the mtype mapping from what is outlined in section 5 to  
XML-RPC method names works in practice? This isn't, at least to me,  
entirely clear and possibly some more example documents might be in  
order. Sorry, it might just be post-lunch time dimness on my part.

Based on the specification I'll try and put together a demonstration  
Perl SAMP hub (and a couple of simple clients) in time for the May  
meeting. It'll be good to have a few prototypes kicking around.

Cheers,
Al.