From 48b64d50003e66f25e78d4f4da980336d691e643 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Jones <dan.jones@noc.ac.uk>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2023 10:06:57 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] docs: replace inline topic docs with link

---
 README.md | 14 ++------------
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 8a2db3f..ed6e5f7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -74,19 +74,9 @@ This will be provided by the backbone operator or requested via the API.
 }
 ```
 
-### Topics and Subscriptions 
+### Topics 
 
-The topics have the following structure: 
-
-```
-project.operator.vehicleType.vehicleID.[send|receive].messageType
-# eg 
-soar.noc.autosub.ah1.send.platform-mission 
-# or 
-soar.po.ecosub.eco1.receive.platform-status
-```
-
-Subscriptions may contain single-word wildcards (*) or multi-word wildcards (#).
+When sending messages you should publish them using a topic matching [this definition](https://git.noc.ac.uk/communications-backbone-system/backbone-message-format#topics).
 
 ## Encoding and decoding 
 
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