Hi,
I agree; we don't want a vote here. We want strong technical reasons for
making a decision.
Thanks,
Chris
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, David Harrington wrote:
Hi Rainer,
The IETF doesn't vote.
The chairs will determine consensus on or after the Aug 18 deadline
for this decision.
David Harrington
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rainer Gerhards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 8:08 PM
To: Carson Gaspar
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [Syslog] RE: byte-counting vs special character
Carson,
Legacy code does not contain LF in messages. It is advised that
new-style syslog also does not contain control characters
(though it now
is allowed).
Thus the argument is valid. Again, I do not object octet-couting (I
actually introduced the idea ;)) but find it the second
best-solution.
Maybe we should do a simple poll - some have already voiced their
choices...
Rainer
-----Original Message-----
From: Carson Gaspar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2006 1:33 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Syslog] RE: byte-counting vs special character
Escaping precludes no-configuration backwards compatibility,
as no legacy
syslog-over-tcp code does escaping. So if you want to
interoperate with
existing code, you must have a "don't escape or expect
escapes" switch in
your code. If you're going to do that, just have a "LF mode
vs byte-count
mode" switch. This whole backwards compat argument is bogus,
iff we decide
to escape embedded LF instead of forbidding it. And I have
yet to see
anyone argue for LF on any grounds except backwards compatibility.
--
Carson
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