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Does QuickFAST support SCP?

April 26, 2017quickfast scp support

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Does QuickFAST support SCP?

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The Session Control Protocol (SCP) is a layer on top of FAST that provides support for managing FAST Sessions (i.e. connections) and Dynamic Template Exchange (sending FAST encoded templates “down-the-wire” to update the templates being used in the decoder. This specification is still at the Draft stage. There are three levels of compliance described in the draft SCP document. QuickFAST is at compliance level 1 — the simplest level. I have completed a design for full SCP support but until the specification is finalized, or someone funds an implementation of the existing draft specification this will remain on hold. In practical terms, this means QuickFAST does support the reset attribute of templates, but does not yet support dynamic template exchange. As part of the SCP support QuickFAST now automatically recognizes the magic number template ID 120 and uses it as an indicator that the decoder should be reset. Other than reseting the decoder this template will be ignored. In particula