> Andrew,
> 
> > Also, if we are to transport syslog over TCP at some stage, 
> > we need to keep
> > a delimiter character free from use in the message. Again, a 
> > LF would be a
> > good choice for this delimiter.
> 
> Here, I disagree. I think we can not set aside a character for this. If
> we go for TCP, let's do octet-couting. Its reliable, efficient and
> proven. Anyhow, we are not yet doing a TCP mapping, so I suggest we save
> this discussion until later.

Why not use LF?

It will work.  There are syslogd implementations about that use LF as
a record delimeter.  In other emails you're saying "we must support
binary because some people are going to use this".  Now we've got people
that support LF as a record delimeter already but you don't want to
take this into account.

Why does what one vendor is going to do mean more than what other
vendors are already doing ?  Is there bias here somewhere ?  Do you
have any particular preference based on work you've done or through
some sort of affiliation ?

If you want to discount use of LF as a record delimeter then there
is no reason we must support use of binary because what vendors are
doing is obviously irrelevant.

Darren

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