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	Title		: Lumas-A Language for Universal Message Abstraction and Specification
	Author(s)	: P. Cordell
	Filename	: draft-cordell-lumas-02.txt
	Pages		: 42
	Date		: 2004-3-22
	
A number of methods and tools are available for defining the format
of messages used for application protocols.  However, many of these
methods and tools have been designed for purposes other than message
definition, and have been adopted on the basis that they are
available rather than being ideally suited to the task.  This often
means that the methods make it difficult to get definitions correct,
or result in unnecessary complexity and verbosity both in the
definition and on the wire.

Lumas - Language for Universal Message Abstraction and Specification
- has been custom designed for the purpose of message definition.  It
is thus easy to specify messages in a compact, extensible format that
is readily machine manipulated to produce a compact encoding on the
wire.

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