Applications Messaging Standard

[Alasdair Allan]

John Taylor wrote:
> In fact, one could go further an eliminate the hub and go peer to  
> peer....each application picks a port in a defined range to host  
> its own xmlrpc server.  When an application wants to discover its  
> peers it scans this range, and should easily detect whether the  
> port belongs to a suitable application.

It's just occurred to me that we probably both know at least one  
system administrator that might shoot their users for running  
software that's basically doing a port scan against the machine. If  
we do go down this route we're going to have to be very (very)  
careful about writing the specification.

Al.