On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 10:01:17AM -0500, Marcus J. Ranum wrote: > Balazs Scheidler wrote: > >What do others think about whether typing of tags should be done or not? > > I don't think we need to type tags. The whole idea of tagging > the data is to allow it to be implicity typed. So it's OK to > convert to a string for simplicity, if you know the tag. There's > no need to get overcomplex - otherwise we'll just have ASN.1 all > over again. I completely agree. > > list to pop up and say "why not use XML"?? :( :( :( Indeed, > XML does _EXACTLY_ the kind of "type inference from tag name" > (e.g.: the DTD) that I am talking about!!! nobody argued that XML is to be used. > Now, we've done the > "what would an API for a new syslog client side look like" > discussion and have basically re-discovered syslog twice, varargs > twice, my suggestion twice, and lord knows what else. Collectively, > we're doing such a good job of beating horses to death without > getting anyplace we may as well join the IETF. This stuff is so > damn obvious it's not even funny. It's just logging, it's not > brain surgery. We are about to implement a client side library to be used on syslog clients. It will be shipped with syslog-ng and as syslog-ng is quite popular I think it has a slight chance of getting acceptance. -- Bazsi PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1 _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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