Curt,
Er, I'm confused. Was there any discussion or did this arise from
someone giving Bob too much time again? You passed it along without
comment: Do I interpret this as a favorable passage, unfavorable, or
simply informational and without comment?
gerry
Curt, WE7U wrote:
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Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:12:29 -0400
From: Robert Bruninga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ITEM-in-Message for XASTIR
Please consider adding this to XASTIR:
ITEM-in-Message format:
Over the years, we have identified a capability that is missing
in APRS, and that is the ability to send an OBJECT to a specific
person via the global APRS network. Currently we can use APRS
messages anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world, but
Igates will only pass messages and not OBJECTS. SO we need to
add a ITEM-in-MESSAGE capability.
This will be an exciting all-new capability. The format is very
easy. It is the existing ITEM format, but it is just put inside
a message instead. It is Human readable so that it can be used
now and then new firmware and software can parse it. I suggest
simply what we have now, the ITEM format...
:USER :)OBJNAME!DDMM.mmN/DDDMM.mmW$comments....}LN...
Where :USER______: is the message format
Where )OBJNA........ Is the ITEM format
Where }LN... Is the Message Line Number (if used)
ON RECEIPT: The "ITEM-in-MESSAGE" is ACKED and then the "ITEM"
format is parsed like any other object for display on the
STATION LIST and on any attached GPS.
I am adding this idea into the new APRS1.2 spec:
www.aprs.org/aprs12.html
This is very powerful, because with it, we can have SERVERS send
POSITION info to mobiles who request information. Where is the
nearest XXXXXX? Then one server anhwere in the world can
respond with a position-in-message object to that station...
We can also use this with the eventual APRS-VOIP system to FORCE
the location of the CALLED person to show up on the radio/map of
the CALLING person. This APRS<==>VOIP is where we have been
heading for the past many years. See www.aprs.org/avrs.html
Thanks
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