Re: OPES protocol, pre-draft

jfcm wrote:

> Notwidthstanding the document I do not understand yet what is an OPES 
> and what is an OPES processor - and it seems that I am not alone. But I
> fully understand what is a dispatcher and what is a server.
The "data dispatcher" is part of the OPES processor (see Figure 1 and 
corresponding text in the architecture draft). You might think of the 
OPES processor as a physical box/network element, and about the data 
dispatcher being a specific software component on this box. Note that 
"OPES processor" does not refer to a "processor" in the sense of a 
processor chip, but rather to the entire "box".
A little bit simplified, you might think of having two different types 
of boxes in the OPES architecture - the "OPES processor" and the 
"callout server". The OPES processor includes a data dispatcher 
(that's simply a functional component), which decides what services 
have to be executed on what messages.
Hope that helps.


-Markus