Re: [logs] why log transport is still important

From: Darren Reed (avalonat_private)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 01:01:32 PST

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    In some mail from Tom Perrine, sie said:
    [...]
    > My questions:
    > 
    > 1) is RFC 3195 (syslog-reliable) so broken that we shold punt and
    >    spend another few years trying to write YALS (yet another log
    >    standard), or do we just go with it and plan to do a version 2
    >    protocol eventually?
    
    If there was to be a v2 of the protocol, then it would somehow need
    to work with v1 as well (look at the history in IETF developments)
    so if v1 is really that unacceptable with BEEP, then it should be
    orphaned sooner rather than later.
    
    > 2) If (1) has solved the transport+integrity problem, then its on to
    >    the semantic questions:  When and what do we log?  What is an
    >    "event"?  We started down this road last month?, but got
    >    sidetracked (again) on sytax (fixed fields vs attribute/value
    >    pairs, and what about XML, etc.).
    
    The "what" part of that question was raised a while ago on this list
    but not the "when" part.  To my mind, I don't think they're separable
    because the "when" is part of what defines the "what".  I still here
    before gettng philosophical :)
    
    Cheers,
    Darren
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