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> On 25. Jan 2023, at 21:33, Carsten Bormann <c...@tzi.org> wrote:
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> On 25. Jan 2023, at 17:42, Michael Richardson <m...@sandelman.ca> wrote:
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>> I am not sure that pcap*NG* is so incredibly established that we can't change
>> it.  I just hate "Next Generation" for anything, particularly when time 
>> moves on.
>> What about if we kept N and G, but changed what they meant?
> 
> (SenML started as an XML vocabulary, but now is mostly JSON and CBOR — so we 
> turned the “ML” into “Measurement Lists”.
> Which is somewhat bizarre, but keeps the acronym.
> For retronyming PCAPNG, what is central to PCAPNG that would explain the P, 
> N, and G?)
pcap, now generalized?

Best regards
Michael
> 
> Grüße, Carsten
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