Nicolas Williams writes:
> I'd say: EOF snoop, ask for funding to add to Wireshark any dissector
> functionality that is in snoop but not in Wireshark, and require that
> future projects that would have had to update snoop to update Wireshark
> instead.

I think that's an excellent answer.  It's just not the one on the
table at the moment, and there's no clear indication that we'll ever
get there.  The people who would presumably do that work haven't
committed any resources to it.

> If funding to update Wireshark with snoop functionality never shows up,
> oh well.

And what of current and future projects that require decode support?
"Oh, well" to them, too?

At one point, I was almost convinced that we had some rough consensus
that building a system was a shared goal.  I'm no longer so sure, as
projects like this look much more like "mere accumulation" than any
sort of intentionally planned effort.

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