Structured Data Elements anywhere in the message?

[Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@hq.adiscon.com>]

Hi WG,

I am trying to close up the current open issues for protocol before I
create new ones ;)

I would like to turn to issue 8, that is structured data element
placement. I have put together the (few) most important thoughts here:

http://www.syslog.cc/ietf/protocol/issue8.html

Anton proposed that we

a) allow elements only in their own, well-defined field
b) merge that with TAG

I personally think a) is a good idea while I am very sceptical about b).
I would appreciate any more feedback on this issue.

Many thanks,
Rainer