VOEvent transport protocol Working draft online

[John Swinbank]

Hello,

> On 24 Sep 2015, at 05:10, Jean-Paul Le Fèvre <jean-paul.lefevre at cea.fr> wrote:
> 
> However, until now, I'm not really convinced that a new protocol is
> necessary to broadcast the VOEvent messages. There is a lot of existing
> protocols dedicated to instant messaging (see for instance the Wikipedia
> page), some of these protocols are widely used, robust implementations are
> available for clients as well as for servers, and they seem to suit our
> needs.

Broadly, I agree with you. However, the intent here is not to define a new protocol, but to standardize a protocol that has been informally defined since ~2008, and is currently actively in use by several projects.

Cheers,

John