Tom, > <tp> > Ports may or may not be scarce but they are expensive. > Introduce a new one and > - anyone with firewall > - anyone with an application level gateway > - anyone with a packet filtering router > has to go out and change each and every box to reflect the > new assignment, a > slow and costly process. This cost is often ignored by > protocol designers.
I agree with you on that. But I think the chance is extremely low that a considerate change is required. Even then, we could implement some version checking via special sequences at a later stage. But my root cause is that I do not expect a change. > > As to header change, the elephant in the room is the IPR > hanging over this work > which we can do no more about except wait to see what > materialises; it could > result in a change. I do not want to get on the slippery slope of the IPR discussion here again. But: if there will be a valid patent on something as trivial as using an octet count followed by a space followed by the data, then you will probably never find anything at all that is unaffected by the IPR. So I consider the IPR discussion to be actually irrelevant. Rainer _______________________________________________ Syslog mailing list [email protected] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog
