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> Was wondering if the FIX community thought it a good idea for us to > maintain a set of recommended min and max lengths for fields (primarily > identifier fields)? Helping to build a new market - I checked around > with some folks I knew on their practices - then I realized - why aren't > we maintaining this as part of the spec or even a separate document. > > Note the Unified Repository already supports a couple of fields that can > be used to specify implementation min and max lengths. > > No I am not saying we establish a standard for field lengths - instead I > am recommending an industry best practice guide for identifier lengths. I second this suggestion. I have suffered from execution venues where the maximum length they were willing to accept for a ClOrdID was very small which made my life extremely difficult. I have suffered from execution venues where the ExecID was absolutely massive which made my life extremely difficult. For some strange reason I have never suffered from an execution venue where the OrderID was too big. Having said that, I'm sure it will happen tomorrow. On a more positive note, I'm glad to say that the majority of execution venues act sensibly. Perhaps if there were some suggested recommendations or guidelines (not standards), it could reduce future issues. JohnP [You can unsubscribe from this discussion group by sending a message to mailto:unsubscribe+100932...@fixprotocol.org] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Financial Information eXchange" group. To post to this group, send email to fix-proto...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to fix-protocol+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/fix-protocol?hl=en.
