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Will BEEP Simplify Network Programming?

Posted by Cliff on from the it's-a-standard-why-not-use-it dept.

hensley writes "There is a (not quite) new effort by the IETF to standardize a framework for network applications, called BEEP, the Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol. Standardized in RFC3080, it takes care of all lower level tasks an application level protocol has to like framing, authentication and capabilities negotiation in a modular and lightweight way. In the current issue of Internet Packet Journal (a quite nice and free-as-in-beer technical publication by Cisco) is a well written Introduction to this framework. Why isn't anyone adopting this protocol besides some Java libraries like beep4j and PermaBEEP and a C library called RoadRunner. I couldn't find any applications based on this protocol, regardless of it's promised capabilities. Is everybody still inventing his own application layer protocol?"

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  1. Acronyms... by Suicide · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Am I the only one who thinks that acronyms that are normal words just confuse non-technical people?

    I mean honestly, I've seen people get over RAM and SDRAM but when I tell them that there's a problem with the BEEP they are going to just flip out.

  2. slashdot these days... by damiam · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Why isn't anyone adopting ... a C library called RoadRunner.

    Is a simple question mark too much to ask for?

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    1. Re:slashdot these days... by Suicide · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      They don't spell check, you want them to grammer and punctuation check?

    2. Re:slashdot these days... by dattaway · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Please rephrase your question in the form of an answer.

    3. Re:slashdot these days... by ErikTheRed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Because they know that AOHell-Time-Warner is going to sue the living shit out of them any minute now...

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  3. This seems as useful as... by kingkade · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    the electricity over IP rfc

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  4. Will BEEP Simplify Network Programming? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No.