Rainer: Are you going to specify a message size limit in -protocol?
I think we do need some limit. For fragmentation in -protocol I need to know how many bytes to dedicate to the fragment offset and potentially message length. I suggest we limit it to 4GB in size (32 bit size) or 16MB (24 bit size). We can also recommend that implementations of receivers provide a configuration option for a maximum accepted message size. Keeping even a single 4GB message in memory becomes quite a challenge. I think we should also specify a minimum message size that all syslog receivers MUST support in any configuration. This will be kind of like the minimum MTU that hosts on the internet must support. Thanks, Anton.
