Carsten Bormann <[email protected]> wrote:
    >> On 26. Oct 2021, at 20:57, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> 
wrote:
    >>
    >>
    >> Here is an example of a LINKTYPE that would be very difficult to explain 
if
    >> it weren't in the context of a pcap/pcapng file.

    > …
    >> LINKTYPE_USB_LINUX_MMAPPED       220
    >> USB packets, beginning with a Linux USB header, as specified by the
    >> struct usbmon_packet in the Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt file in the
    > …

    > Whether that is a good registry entry is for the designated expert (DE)
    > to decide, not for the IESG.

The document in question would have to establish the history of the entries.
The IESG will ask questions about this part.  It will happen.

    > The third document would establish the registry and maybe provide a few
    > entries so the IESG has some examples to look at.

Not a few entries, all of the history of them.

    > Loading that registry is then done via IANA and the DE.

No, that's now how it's worked in the past, and now what IANA told me.

    >> Maybe we can eliminate all of the pcap->pcapng normative references.

    > Yes, please!

    > (Having a normative reference to a HISTORIC document is a bit weird, 
anyway.)

I don't see why.

anyway, if the WG wants to go this way, then I'd ask the chairs to judge.

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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>   . o O ( IPv6 IΓΈT consulting )
           Sandelman Software Works Inc, Ottawa and Worldwide




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