Re: [logs] Syslog payload format

From: Mikael Olsson (mikael.olssonat_private)
Date: Sat Jan 04 2003 - 05:55:52 PST

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    Karl Vogel wrote:
    > 
    > Bennet Todd wrote:
    > > I think we're in agreement that we can't hope to cover every possible
    > > need a priori, there needs to be some open-ended flexibility for people
    > > to add tags where the existing lexicon doesn't cover their needs.
    > 
    >    Could we do something similar to the mail-header custom of prepending
    >    "X-" to non-blessed headers?  Let the namespace do the work?
    
    That would introduce incompatibility with every single tag/value
    format there is today, and there's quite a few of them.
    
    IMO, it'd be better to prefix the registered tag names.
    Personally, I liked the "R_" prefix idea.
    
    
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