User Defined Fields for Administrative Messages

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Imported from previous forum

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I am currently working on the development of an Open Source C++ FIX engine for Windows and Linux and have a question about user defined fields for administrative messages.

Does this ever happen? Is it a feature that people need? There is nothing in the spec that says it can’t happen, but I have never heard of it before. I am wondering if we should implement this ability or not.

Thanks,
Chris Charlier

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[ original email was from Ryan Pierce - rpierce@taltrade.com ]
> I am currently working on the development of an Open Source C++ FIX engine for Windows and Linux and have a question about user defined fields for administrative messages.
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> Does this ever happen? Is it a feature that people need? There is nothing in the spec that says it can’t happen, but I have never heard of it before. I am wondering if we should implement this ability or not.

I would recommend that engine vendors should support implementing it, but I wouldn’t recommend that engine users require such fields to be present in order to accept messages. (Otherwise one would limit one’s potential counterparties considerably, as not everyone has the ability to modify their engine.)

Logon is probably the most likely candidate for user-defined fields for things like proprietary authentication schemes.