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My reply inline, below. > Whatever solution you chose can NOT involve the downstream system to > insert/modify/etc any tags. I thought that was the whole idea of this web site. To share ideas and creative solutions, that may necessitate new FIX tags. :) > > Also, the clock slew you'd try to contend with makes any 2 clock > system invalid. > There are solutions to this problem. But they are unrelated to FIX. > You have to measure on a single system, so you have to use an echo type > of solution, where you > > 1. send a message, start timer > 2. receive the return msg, stop timer > 3. Calculate difference > > Ian > We do this already with existing messages. But the extra tag(s) would let us provide more value to both Operations and Traders. [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/FIX-Protocol?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
