RE: syslog-protocol Discussion

[Anton Okmianski <aokmians@cisco.com>]

> > Rainer has proposed adding "metadata" as a field in the protocol
> > (formerly called "cookies")
>
> I count this as a vote for the term "metadata" and will
> assume this issue is solved when nobody objects it ;)

Meta-data is ok, although I would have preferred referring to these as
just "tags" since this part of the message is not necessarily going to
be "data about data".  It could be just a well-structured part of the
entire message and may carry data no different then the rest of the
message other than formatting.

If you go with meta-data, please note that the correct spelling is with
a hyphen.  The word "Metadata" (one word and with no hyphen) appears to
be trademarked.

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=metadata

Anton.