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> It's discussed in section 5.4 (Unreliable Delivery - in the Security 
> Considerations section) in RFC 5426 and throughout Section 3.1 
> (Loss-Insensitive Messaging) in RFC 4347.  I'm thinking that it would be good 
> to note this in Section 4 (Using DTLS to Secure Syslog) in the draft.
> 
>   Overall, the community is comfortable with the loss of information as 
> they've been using syslog/udp for many years and know the problems with that. 
>  RFC 5424 also notes that implementers who wish a lossless stream should be 
> using tls/tcp as their transport.  From that, it's probably best to reference 
> RFC 5848 (referenced as draft-ietf-syslog-sign in the draft) which can also 
> provide an indication of loss of messages. "
> ===^^^^===
> 
> ACTION: I'd like to get some discussion going on this.  Do people think that 
> this is good?

I think a note somewhere reminding people that DTLS is unreliable, and that 
syslog-sign protects both reliable and unreliable transports is reasonable, but 
I wouldn't spend more than a sentence on each.

        Jon


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