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I will volunteer to generate an initial minimally accepted lengths and recommended lengths for identifiers and post. > 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. [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.
