On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 7:15 AM, Cedric Pradalier wrote: > The conclusion is that, at least in C++, there is no particular > problem to make the transport layer more open. > I'm happy to send the diff for review if there is an interest. This is > not production code, but I don't think what I changed has the > potential to be disruptive. It's mostly reorganising some bits and > pieces into functions and classes. That's good news. I suspect the difficult problem will be understanding and characterizing various clients' implicit assumptions about bandwidth, latency, reliability, quality of service, etc. We need to understand what kinds of transport protocols will satisfy which specific robotics applications. --  joq