On Oct 25, 2021, at 11:34 PM, Carsten Bormann <c...@tzi.org> wrote: > No document here has to wait for any other document to be published.
Currently: draft-gharris-opsawg-pcap-02 contains its own list of values for the LinkType field in the file header; draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng-02 points to https://www.tcpdump.org/linktypes.html for the LinkTYpe field in the Interface Description Block. Note that those two sets must be *the exact same sets*, so, by the time these become RFCs, either one should point to the other, or both should point to a common location, such as an IETF registry. If we go for "one should point to the other", e.g. the pcapng spec points to the pcap spec, then the one that is pointed to must be published first. If we go for "both should point to a common location", the common location must be established first; if that involves publishing a spec that lists the LINKTYPE_ values, e.g. by extracting that list from the pcap spec and putting it into a separate spec, and having the registry point to that spec, the same way that the registry for Snoop link types: https://www.iana.org/assignments/snoop-datalink-types/snoop-datalink-types.xhtml#snoop-datalink-types-2 points to one or more RFCs for various link-layer types, then the initial spec with the link-layer types would have to be published at the same time as, or before, the pcap and pcapng specs are published. I would vote for "both should point to a common location" so that neither the pcap nor the pcapng spec says "there is *the* list of link-layer types" - it points to a registry, and as more types are added to the registry, more specs can be published define them. _______________________________________________ OPSAWG mailing list OPSAWG@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/opsawg