Related to Issue 2
Post by: Chris Lonvik
Date: 2003-12-18
Hi Anton, The term "cookies" was first used by John Kelsey in his first drafts of syslog-sign to denote that the content of the message was somehow special and should be parsed differently. This sounded like a good idea then and Rainer used the same approach when he started thinking about syslog-international. Since the cookies (or "tags" or "identifiers" or whatever you wish to call them) still seem to be a good thing, I asked Rainer to formalize them in syslog-protocol. I did make the suggestion that it "look" like XML. I'm very glad to get the discussion going and will support the consensus of the WG so please, everyone, comment on this issue. Thanks, Chris