> i read this a year or two ago. it was a major impetus in the design of JACK,
> because i believe that almost all of it is based on a complete misconception
> of how to do this stuff, and some of it is just plain wrong. Its worth
> noting that SGI's "DM" API has never really taken off, and there
RE: A generic control/message passing protocol
I encourage you all to have a look at Open Sound Control (OSC). OSC was
designed to be simple to parse yet sufficiently verbose to provide a complete
namespace and type system. OSC is stateless and designed with realtime music
applications in mind,