RE: [Syslog-sec] AD Review for draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-14

2005-09-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Dear Sam WG, many thanks for your review of syslog-protocol and the questions raised. Below, I have given answers to many of the questions. Some of them include suggestions of how we could change the ID. I would appreciate if WG members could read through this mail, even though it is quite

RE: [Syslog-sec] Change request on Syslog protocol - version 14, sec 6.2.4 TRUNCATE value

2005-09-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Steve, many thanks for the input. I understand the reasoning for the two digits and find it well thought-out and useful. I will change that in the next release of the draft if there is no objection against it (Chris: I guess a change is OK in the current status of the ID?). However, I do not

RE: [Syslog-sec] Change request on Syslog protocol - version 14, sec 6.2.4 TRUNCATE value

2005-09-22 Thread schang99
Hi, Rainer: Thanks for accepting my request to fix the TRUNCATE field to 2 digits. With the 2 digits fixed, the issue is indeed pretty much under control. As to the whether to swap the meaning for value 4 and 16, it's really debatable as to which one is a more likely case. I think it depends on