This project contains specifications and resources for FIX Performance session layer (FIXP).
FIXP is part of a family of protocols created by the High Performance Working Group of the FIX Trading Community. FIXP is a session layer protocol (layer 5).
The planned lifecycle of this project is to work iteratively in a series of release candidates. After each release candidate is approved, it will be exposed to public review. Issues may be entered here in GitHub or in a discussion forum on the FIX Trading Community site. When version 1.0 is considered complete, the last release candidate will be promoted to Draft Standard.
Promotion to final Technical Standard is contingent on successful public review and evidence of at least two interoperable implementations.
All approved versions of the FIXP specification are available as MS Word documents at FIX Performance Session Layer (FIXP).
Version 1.0 Draft Standard was approved for publication by the Global Technical Committee on August 16, 2018 for public review. Comments may be entered in the FIX public forum.
RC4 and earlier specifications are included here for reference only. Pull requests for approved versions will no longer be accepted. However, issues for errata or proposed future enhancements may be entered.
FIXP specifications are © Copyright 2014-2018 FIX Protocol Ltd.
FIX Performance Session Layer specification by FIX Protocol Ltd. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Based on a work at https://github.com/FIXTradingCommunity/fixp-specification.
We will post links to open source implementations of FIXP. Implementors, contact one of the owners of this repository.
An open-source implementation of FIXP is available in GitHub project FIXTradingCommunity/silverflash. That project also demonstrates FIX standards Simple Binary Encoding (SBE) and Simple Open Framing Header (SOFH).
Project Conga is a proof of concept of high performance FIX semantics over WebSocket with SBE and JSON encodings. At the session layer, it employs FIXP for session durability, reliability, and recoverability.