> Let's not try to create a protocol just to standardzie something not > directly related to the internet. If you want to develop a parser and > have the parser accepted as a "standard" why don't you just develop it > as open source, say, on sourceforge?
Just for the records: I plan to include support for -protocol and any upcoming agreement on storage format (whenever this is) in my open source, BSD license logging library implementation at http://www.liblogging.org/. I hope this will facilitate things in the future. > If everybody uses it, it will > become a defacto standard. You don't need to make it an IETF standard. Rainer