> On 20. Jul 2025, at 10:28, Joe Clarke (jclarke) > <jclarke=40cisco....@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote: > > Thanks for the IPR confirmation. I’m all for giving credit to where it’s > due, but would be sufficient to link to this CREDITS page? > I’m all for a non-ng name. What is “ecap”? Why? People are used to the pcap-ng acronym. I do agree, that "pcap next generation" is not a good name. But what about "pcap now generic"? So keep the acronym, but choose a better name with the deployed acronym?
Best regards Michael > As for mentioning the “future work” I don’t think we need to forward link to > that in the historical doc. > Joe > From: Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca> > Date: Friday, July 18, 2025 at 05:51 > To: opsawg@ietf.org <opsawg@ietf.org> > Subject: [OPSAWG]some questions to the WG about *pcap* > > (0. Somewhere I had an email asking of I had IPR, and I can't find that email, > so here is my public statement that I have none.) > > 1. In draft-ietf-opsawg-pcap we suggest that we are going to fill the > contributors section in with the contents of > https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/master/CREDITS > > Is the WG okay with this? I propose names, not email addresses. > I propose using the XML mechanism for contributors, not free-form. > > 2. I've made some minor edits around the endian clue from the magic number, > which are now: > https://github.com/IETF-OPSAWG-WG/draft-ietf-opsawg-pcap/pull/187 > Also that version numbers are independent. > > 3. I clarified document to say it's intention is historical. > > 4. I'd really like to rename pcapng -> ecap. > Since pcap refers to it as "new" work, it needs to know the name. > pcapng^Wecap would be published as Informational, because IETF can not > make significant changes to it. > If there energy to revise ecap, then we would do the normal "2.0" > > > -- > Michael Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works > -= IPv6 IoT consulting =- *I*LIKE*TRAINS* > > > _______________________________________________ > OPSAWG mailing list -- opsawg@ietf.org > To unsubscribe send an email to opsawg-le...@ietf.org _______________________________________________ OPSAWG mailing list -- opsawg@ietf.org To unsubscribe send an email to opsawg-le...@ietf.org
