I will not be able to join the call this afternoon.
I think we should keep separate a “marketing
version number” from a “technical release number”.
The “marketing version number”
is more or less what we have now. I.e. X.Y where X increases when there is a
big change (whatever that might be) and Y when there is a small change.
This is what appears on the webpage and
what people generally use to refer to a published version of FpML It’s really
just a label from a developer’s perspective.
The “technical release number”
is something that a system consuming FpML messages can use to determine if and
how a message should be processed. This could be just a build number or
something more complex that indicates if a version is backwards compatible or
not with a previous one.
I am skeptical on how useful it is to
indicate at a global level that a version is compatible/incompatible with
another one. For example if the FX definitions change in backwards incompatible
way, a consumer that uses only the IR definitions is unaffected. It would certainly
be a bad idea for the IR consumer to discard messages that are marked as
backwards incompatible.
-daniel
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Agenda
1. Updates
2. FpML versioning numbering (continued)
3. AOB
Thanks
Andrew Jacobs
Director, HandCoded Consulting Ltd.
Director, HandCoded Software Ltd.
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