Re: [Mratc-developers] [my status]

[Michael R. <ht...@us...>]

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From: "Aquila Deus" <aqu...@ya...>

> Again, I list things that we've (maybe) been sure:
>
>
>    R A D A R                       F L I G H T S
>
>      ||                                  ||
>      ||                                  //
>
>       Flight management system  (is the name proper?)

Sounds good

>  +--------------------------------------
>  |  Database to store flight info
>  |  Flight registration interface
>  +--------------------------------------
>      ||
>      ||
>      ||   ATC
>  +--------------------------------------
>  | Internal structure undecided
>  +--------------------------------------
>
>
> Radar: I don't know about the interface of radar system.
Should we get info
> from radar (if so, how?), or wait for it to send our system
info about flights?

Unspecified at this time.  Whichever works best.  The interface
should be as open and widely implemented as possible, without
sacrificing performance.  We don't want to tie radar
manufacturers down to an obscure, poorly supported protocol.
The atc and radar systems should be fairly independent as well.
The radar system might be owned and maintained by one entity
while the atc system is owned and maintained by another.  Having
database logins for the other system might be too much
interdependence.  No user IDs or passwords for the atc-radar
interface seems appropriate at this time.  The atc system should
be able to keep functioning even if it loses contact with a
radar system.  Also, a radar system should be able to keep
functioning even if it loses contact with the atc system.  We
can try to re-establish communications if they are lost, but not
put the whole show on hold while we wait for communications to
be restored.

> ATC: the only thing we can be sure that it has only one source
of input and
> output. But that's good enough for us to start working on :)

What do you mean by "one source of input and output?"

> BTW, what happened to mratc.org??

It's still around.  Since DNS changes didn't propogate fast
enough, I removed all the flight hostnames (flight1 - flight15).
There are still atc & radar hosts.  There is no www host, but
there is a home page for the project at
http://mratc.sourceforge.net/

--Mike