GCN-XML and Dakota

[Alasdair Allan]

>> It would be great to unify these two seemingly equivalent transport mechanisms. One has the events and 20 years of trust, the other has the open source implementation.
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> This seems like a great idea - especially the greatness-of-heart for originating from a Jabberian.  Perhaps Scott and Bob can comment?

My understanding is that both implement the vTCP note that Bob and I wrote? Am I wrong here?

>> -- Dakota uses "iamalive" messages whereas GCN uses "imalive" messages (note spelling).
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> If there is a difference perhaps we can pick one or the other.  I don't think we need wait for VOEvent v3.0 to address this issue :-)

I think that's a bug, not a feature?

Al.