On May 17, 2010, at 12:09 PM, Nate Duehr wrote:
On 5/17/2010 11:57 AM, Woodrick, Ed wrote:
And while you indicate that the G2 and DPlus protocols aren’t open
source, they definitely have been reversed engineered and we have
third party solutions talking to them now.
Which ones? Where can one find information on them?
There are several projects, the most promising right now is G4ULF's
working D-STAR repeater and G2 protocol compliant software. Runs on
Linux, uses Satoshi (and hopefully soon Fred's) firmware, and a very
modest CPU/Memory footprint (the actual repeater and gateway are only
about 80k compiled). David is very careful about QA of his code and
has worked extensively with K5TIT trust team in a test and production
environment. G4ULF code based repeater/gateways can connect to K5TIT
trust, but generally availability is probably at least a couple of
months out.
Did they publish their reverse-engineering work?
Some has been published, but everyone seems to be afraid it will be
misused.
Are they recommended for use in the overall network?
By whom? K5TIT sort of took a neutrality position last year, though
they only approve gateways that have software they are familiar with
(e.g. Icom and G4ULF) through cooperation and testing.
Anything interesting/useful? Enlighten us Ed.
I've seen Zip/Doo-Dah/Nada from the powers that be on any 3rd party
applications talking to 2nd party applications that work in the
network and are recommended (or even required) to be installed by
the Trust Server team.
What "powers that be" --- the K5TIT Trust Team approves what can be
supported by their team. Other Trust Servers may have different
requirements.
Would love to know what they are and whether they're approved for
use in the network.
Nate WY0X
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