On 12-Nov-20 10:47, Eliot Lear wrote:
> We didn’t use the ISE for JSON.  Why should we use it here?

I have no idea what the arguments were for JSON. Carsten already stated why the 
Independent Stream is appropriate for PCAPNG: "PCAPNG is a done deal." So 
there's nothing non-editorial to discuss. Waste of WG time.

If there's a PCAPNGng proposal, bring it here by all means.

Regards
   Brian
> 
> Eliot
> 
>> On 11 Nov 2020, at 21:15, Brian E Carpenter <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> On 12-Nov-20 04:07, Toerless Eckert wrote:
>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 10:34:25AM +0100, Eliot Lear wrote:
>>>> Hang on a moment.
>>>>
>>>> The PCAP community has been looking for a home to evolve the work.
>>>
>>>> We can decide on whether to start with informational or STD
>>>> but the reason to lean toward the latter is that this is a broadly used 
>>>> standard
>>>> that is looking for a home to evolve.
>>>
>>> So, how is this base specification not a pre-ordained protocol developed
>>> outside the IETF that can not be significantly shaped through the work
>>> of the WG if/when it sees the need to do so ?
>>>
>>> What is the WG allowed to design for this protocol spec ? Wordsmithing
>>> and blessing ? Anything else ?
>>>
>>>> Moreover, there is a clear need for IANA here, for tagging information 
>>>> inside the PCAP.
>>>
>>> That does AFAIK not require IETF WG RFC, and besides, i am not
>>> even sure that it even needs an IETF document to create registries @IANA.
>>
>> It doesn't, as long as the Independent Stream Editor and IANA agree
>> to it. The Independent Stream explicitly allows for documenting
>> widely used solutions that are *not* the result of IETF consensus.
>>
>> It's fine for the pcapng community to decide to cede change control
>> to the IETF, but if they want to document the *existing* protocol
>> as is, before handing over change control,  IMHO the Independent
>> Stream is exactly the right way to go. It would also probably be
>> quicker, too.
>>
>> Then develop PCAPNGbis in opsawg, by all means.
>>
>>    Brian
>>
>>> Worst case one could have an external, not even RFC specification and
>>> have the WG a small "bless you pcapng" standards track RFC that does
>>> exactly that and asks for creation of the IANA registries.
>>>
>>>>  This is really a win-win opportunity.  The PCAP developers need a place 
>>>> that helps them formally state extensions and they need a way to not trip 
>>>> over one another on extension numbers.  Does that mean we have to take the 
>>>> doc as it is?  No.  But changes should simply be by consensus, and I doubt 
>>>> you will find a lot of consensus for frivolous changes.
>>>
>>> Let me know which of my asks you think is frivolous.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>    Toerless
>>>
>>>> Eliot
>>>>
>>>>> On 11 Nov 2020, at 10:21, Toerless Eckert <[email protected] 
>>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks for explaining. Cc'in ISE to keep me honest:
>>>>>
>>>>> I don't think this process ("IETF bless this protocol, no, we can't 
>>>>> change anything
>>>>> significant") is appropriate for an Internet Standards Track RFC.  I can 
>>>>> not
>>>>> even see informatinal as appropriate if WG consensus is constrained by 
>>>>> pre-existing
>>>>> code developed without consensus by the WG. Ideally a spec like this 
>>>>> should be an
>>>>> individual submission RFC. I don't think that prohibits that OPSAWG can 
>>>>> be used as
>>>>> a location where the authors ask for feedback and decide which of the 
>>>>> feedback they
>>>>> are willing to incorporate. I would certainly encourage OPSAWG to do 
>>>>> that. I think
>>>>> that best allows the authors to maintain ownership of all design 
>>>>> decisions and
>>>>> get all the community feedback that suits the authors.
>>>>>
>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>   Toerless
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Nov 11, 2020 at 09:54:22AM +0100, Carsten Bormann wrote:
>>>>>> PCAPNG is a done deal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We might want to discuss a next generation after that, but I would 
>>>>>> expect that people are still happy after having migrated from PCAP to 
>>>>>> PCAPNG.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So this effort was about documenting the protocol and making sure the 
>>>>>> extension points are well-documented and well-curated.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Grüße, Carsten
> 

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