VOEvent transport protocol Working draft online

[Matthew Graham]

Hi Jean-Paul,

The Palomar-Quest and Catalina Real-time Transient Surveys served VOEvents for several years via Jabber/XMPP and there is still (legacy) software to do this. I would suggest contacting Andrew Drake (ajd at cacr.caltech.edu) for further details.

	Cheers,

	Matthew


On Sep 24, 2015, at 2:10 AM, Jean-Paul Le Fèvre wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm really happy to see that discussions  are starting over about
> VOEvent-related matters since with my French and Chinese colleagues we have
> just began to experiment various techniques to distribute what will be the
> Svom VOEvents.
> 
> 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.
> 
> For  Svom the favorite protocol, at this point, is XMPP and we are working
> with the ignite realtime (http://www.igniterealtime.org/) libraries and
> programs to implement our tests. The first results are very encouraging.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --
> Jean-Paul Le Fèvre jean-paul.lefevre at cea.fr – CEA Irfu
> Svom French scientific centers project manager
>