Tango Request For Comments (RFC)

Tango Request For Comments (RFC)#

This repository is the home of all Tango Open Specification.

It is rendered on the readthedocs.io: Documentation Status

Mission#

The goal of this RFC project is to provide a formal specification of the current (V9) Tango Controls system. This specification shall include:

  1. Concepts,

  2. Terminology,

  3. Protocol behaviour,

  4. Conventions,

each on a sufficient level for future evolution of Tango Controls and/or implementation in other languages. In that respect, concepts are more important than implementation details.

Contribution#

The process to add or change an RFC is the following:

  • An RFC is created and modified by pull requests according to the Collective Code Construction Contract (C4).

  • The RFC life-cycle SHOULD follow the life-cycle defined in the Consensus-Oriented Specification System (COSS).

  • The specification SHOULD use Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF (RFC5234)

Read more here.

RFCs#

The table below summarises all available or expected specifications.

Short Name

Title

Status

Editor

1/Tango

The Tango control system

Stable

Lorenzo Pivetta

2/Device

The device object model

Stable

Thomas Juerges

3/Command

The command model

Stable

Sergio Rubio

4/Attribute

The attribute model

Stable

Sergio Rubio

5/Property

The property model

Stable

Gwenaelle Abeillé

6/Database

The database system

Stable

Gwenaelle Abeillé

7/Pipe

The pipe model

Stable

Reynald Bourtembourg

8/Server

The server model

Stable

Lorenzo Pivetta

9/DataTypes

Data types

Stable

Gwenaelle Abeillé

10/RequestReply

The Request-Reply protocol

Stable

Reynald Bourtembourg

11/RequestReplyCORBA

The Request-Reply protocol - CORBA implementation

Postponed

12/PubSub

The Publisher-Subscriber protocol

Draft

Thomas Juerges

13/PubSubZMQ

The Publisher-Subscriber protocol - ZeroMQ implementation

Postponed

Thomas Juerges

14/Logging

Logging service

Stable

Sergio Rubio

15/DynamicAttrCmd

The dynamic attribute and command

Stable

Reynald Bourtembourg

16/TangoResourceLocator

Tango Resource Locator

Stable

Thomas Braun

17/MemorisedAttr

Memorised attribute service

Postponed

18/AccessCtrl

Authorisation system

Postponed

19/Telemetry

The Telemetry service

WIP, !178

Thomas Braun

20/Encryption

Encryption of Tango communication

WIP, !172

Anton Joubert