Just compare the successes of history on protocols: X.500 vs. LDAP X.400 vs. SMTP OSI vs. TCP/IP SGML vs. HTML CMIP vs. SNMP It's not trivializing a problem to understand that nice and easy tends to win over complete and complex. All of the protocols that lost, were highly intellectual and covered all/most possible situations. But they didn't win out, why? They had too much baggage and were too complex to implement. You can spend your time and this list's time creating grandiose frameworks, but history is against you for actually getting it used. Learn from history this time. Ron Ogle Rennes, France > -----Original Message----- > From: Marcus J. Ranum [mailto:mjrat_private] > Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 07:48 PM > To: Ogle Ron (Rennes); 'Frank O'Dwyer'; loganalysisat_private > Subject: RE: [logs] Syslog payload format > > ... > When you trivialize a problem by looking at a subset of it, > it's really easy to criticize broader approaches as too > complex. It's intellectually dishonest to do that, though, > and doesn't add much to the discussion. > > mjr. > --- > Marcus J. Ranum http://www.ranum.com > Computer and Communications Security mjrat_private > _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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