RE: SD IDs (was: RE: [Syslog-sec] Syslog protocoldraft(draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-11.txt))

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

Hi WG,

Alex suggestion (below) sounds good to me. I tend to reserve the first
character "x" for vendor extension and skip the part about the hyphen.
So everything is managed by IANA, except those SD-IDs starting with "x".

Are there any concerns?

Rainer

> ***ALEX: I think this is expressed a bit awkward.  Also, why 
> require vendor extensions to use 2 extra characters ("x-") to 
> designate them as such?  You could say that IANA SD-IDs will 
> have no hyphen in the second position, whereas vendor 
> extensions always need one (but then why restrict it to the 
> letter "x"?)  Or, to make it even more compact, you could say 
> that IANA SD-IDs will start with any letter other than "x", 
> while vendor extensions always MUST start with the letter 
> "x".  I don't think the extra hyphen is needed.  Given that 
> we may see multiple SD-Elements in syslog messages and there 
> are length restrictions, it seems prudent to be very 
> economical with requiring additional positions.  
> 
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