[OSC_dev] oscit registration complete !

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Wed, January 28, 2009 04:37, Jeff Glatt wrote:
> Questions about oscit:
>
> 1) Why is it limited to UDP?
>
> 2) Why do you need the /.reply_to message? A UDP datagram includes the
> sender's reply address, so you just pull that out of the UDP datagram if
> you
> want to reply. So too, you can get the sender's address from a TCP (ie,
> connected) socket. I imagine that most other multi-bus protocols include
> the
> sender information with any "message", for example, with USB. So why don't
> you just leave it up to the underlying protocol to supply the sender's
> address (in the same way that OSC itself leaves it up to the underlying
> protocol to supply the size of each received OSC message)?
>

Answer b). You might not want replies at all, the sender might not be
capable of listening, in which case you will be needlessly filling a send
buffer.


Answer c) in future we might want to support multiple listeners.

Salsaman.