Hi Folks, I trust that everyone has had a good rest and is ready to get things going again for the new year. :-)
I'd like to keep us focused on syslog-protocol for the moment. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-00.txt Rainer has proposed adding "metadata" as a field in the protocol (formerly called "cookies") for specific information to be included in the syslog packet. There has been some discussion about this: http://www.mail-archive.com/syslog-sec%40employees.org/msg01346.html with many follow-up responses. It looks like the consensus is - the idea may be a good one. - the format may need some tweaking. - saying that it "looks" like XML is a bad thing. I'm going to ask Rainer to add this idea into the syslog-protocol ID at this time with inputs from the Working Group. I'd like for this discussion to continue on the mailing list as well. Hopefully we can resolve things on the mailing list. I'm also going to call for a meeting in Seoul to give us a deadline for this discussion. It looks like syslog-protocol is fairly well finished with the exception of this item and the TAG issue raised by Albert. I'd like to have everything resolved on this just after Seoul (or sooner if we can do it on the mailing list) so we can put this into WG Last Call rsn and get it to the IESG. Thanks, Chris
