RE: [Syslog-sec] Naming Style for SD-PARAMs

["Sharon Chisholm" <schishol@nortelnetworks.com>]

hi

We do want to be careful not to over proscribe, but a note suggesting lower
camel where ever it seems most appropriate in the draft will actually help
prevent things breaking as swstuff, sw-stuff, swStuff and SwStuff do not
interoperate. People can still manage to create duplicate tags, but
consistent naming patterns make this more detectable and therefore
preventable.

Sharon

-----Original Message-----
From: Rainer Gerhards [mailto:rgerhards@hq.adiscon.com] 
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2005 3:24 AM
To: ietfdbh@comcast.net; Sharon Chisholm; syslog-sec@employees.org
Subject: RE: [Syslog-sec] Naming Style for SD-PARAMs


David,

I've been hesitant to put a specific recommendation in because we had so
many discussions about the paper being to precise. And if someone implements
-protocol but does not use consistent case for his SD-IDs .... nothing is
broken at all... 

Based on your suggestion, however, I think it would be worth putting a note
into the non-normative "implementors notes" appendix. 

What does the WG say?

Rainer 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David B Harrington [mailto:ietfdbh@comcast.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 10:37 PM
> To: Rainer Gerhards; 'Sharon Chisholm'; syslog-sec@employees.org
> Subject: RE: [Syslog-sec] Naming Style for SD-PARAMs
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The case-consistency was overlooked by the WG. It will be easy to 
> overlook by others. I suggest we add a guideline to implementers 
> suggesting the use of lower camel for consistency.
> 
> dbh
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org
> > [mailto:syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Rainer Gerhards
> > Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:41 AM
> > To: Sharon Chisholm; syslog-sec@employees.org
> > Subject: RE: [Syslog-sec] Naming Style for SD-PARAMs
> > 
> > Sharon,
> > 
> > I agree to your comment. I will change it consistently to
> > all-lowercase
> > in the draft, but I will not include any requirement to do 
> > so. Hopefully
> > the consistent lowercase will be guidiance enough to implementors ;)
> > 
> > Rainer
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org
> > > [mailto:syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org] On Behalf Of 
> > > Sharon Chisholm
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:13 PM
> > > To: syslog-sec@employees.org
> > > Subject: [Syslog-sec] Naming Style for SD-PARAMs
> > > 
> > > hi
> > > 
> > > I was looking through version 8 of the protocol specification
> > > to see what
> > > sort of naming style was being used for SD-PARAMs and it 
> > > seems all over the
> > > map. Should set a best practice and use it consistently 
> > throughout the
> > > document? I don't think we want an actual requirement though
> > > as it would
> > > turn into a CLR (crappy little rule)
> > > 
> > > 1. Upper Camel
> > > 
> > > EventSource, EventID
> > > 
> > > 2. Lower Camel
> > > 
> > > enterpriseID
> > > 
> > > 3. all lower case
> > > 
> > > tzknown, issynced, issynced
> > > 
> > > 4. Hyphenated
> > > 
> > > sw-version
> > > 
> > > Sharon Chisholm
> > > Nortel Networks
> > > Ottawa, Ontario
> > > Canada
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