RE: HOSTNAME Field

2003-01-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
Chris, I conceptually agree with the proposed change. At the same time, at the risk of duplicating prior comments, I see this allows for the HOSTNAME to reference a logical entity which may be a subset or superset of a physical entity. For example, foo.bar.com may easily refer to a web

RE: TIMESTAMP format (One Last Time :-)

2003-01-22 Thread Rainer Gerhards
I agree with Andrew, We so often have seen those limits that we do not envision to become limits turn into hard ones... Did you ever envision having 1 GB of memory in your laptop... Rainer Maximum TIMESTAMP field length of 30 characters (that should give 4 secfrac characters if the rest of

RE: HOSTNAME Field

2003-01-22 Thread Marshall Glen
Rainer, OK, that sounds reasonable. The examples you give are a good ones and probably should be included in the RFC text. Glen -Original Message- From: Rainer Gerhards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 03:30 To: Marshall Glen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE:

RE: TIMESTAMP format (One Last Time :-)

2003-01-22 Thread Christopher Lonvick
Hi Rainer, 32 octets sounds good. It would probably be a good idea to put an note in the IANA Concerns section that additional TIMESTAMP formats may be defined as the granularity becomes more definable and is needed. In your example, you have: 1985-04-12T18:20:50.52-0500 Shouldn't that