- Client - consumer of live timing data.
- CTD format - Common Timing Data format, as detailed on this site.
- Master router - the central node of the timing network. Responsible for
passing data from service processes to relay nodes and for orchestration of
other WAMP components.
- Relay - a process that subscribes to timing data updates, and passes them
on to clients subscribed to the relay.
- Service - a process that obtains timing data from an upstream source,
converts it to the CTD format, and publishes it over the timing network.
- Service manifest - a description of the contents of state messages from
a service process. See Service manifest
- Upstream source - live timing data provider, typically based at the track;
think Al Kamel, TimeService, etc.
- WAMP - Web Application Messaging Protocol, an
open-standard WebSocket subprotocol with publish/subscribe and remote
procedure calling.
Timing