Tango Request For Comments (RFC)¶

This repository is the home of all Tango Open Specification.

Mission¶

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

concepts,
terminology,
protocol behaviour,
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).

RFCs¶

The table below summarises all available or expected specifications. For the current “work in progress status”, please check either PRs or Wiki.

Short Name	Title	Status	Editor
RFC-1	The Tango control system	Raw	Lorenzo Pivetta
RFC-2	The device object model	Draft	Vincent Hardion
RFC-3	The command model	Draft	Sergi Blanchi-Torné
RFC-4	The attribute model	Draft	Sergi Blanchi-Torné
RFC-5	The property model	Draft	Gwenaelle Abeillé
RFC-6	The database system	Draft	Gwenaelle Abeillé
RFC-7	The pipe model	Draft	Reynald Bourtembourg
RFC-8	The server model	Draft	Lorenzo Pivetta
RFC-9	Data types	Draft	Gwenaelle Abeillé
RFC-10	The Request-Reply protocol	Raw	Reynald Bourtembourg
RFC-11	The Request-Reply protocol - CORBA implementation	Raw
RFC-12	The Publisher-Subscriber protocol	Draft	Vincent Hardion
RFC-13	The Publisher-Subscriber protocol - ZeroMQ implementation	Raw
RFC-14	Logging service	Raw	Sergi Blanchi-Torné
RFC-15	The dynamic attribute and command	Draft	Reynald Bourtembourg
RFC-16	Cache system	Raw
RFC-17	Memorised attribute service	Raw
RFC-18	Authorisation system	Raw
RFC-XX	High Level API	Raw
RFC-XX	High Level API - Python implementation	Raw
RFC-XX	High Level API - Java implementation	Raw