Related to issue 2
Post by: David Harrington
Date: 2003-12-18
Hi, There is a real demand in the industry for leveraging existing standards rather than creating new languages or special syntaxes. The demand is to reduce the number of special languages an operator needs to learn, and to make it possible to integrate the data from one application type with others. If you're going to use XML at all, then I recommend using real XML so the data specified can be read by other applications that already use XML, and integrated with their other data. I'm not sure how many applications will want to integrate with syslog cookies, but if there is useful information in the cookie, then another application might be able to use that info in combination with other info to create additional features. The use of a special syntax that looks like but is not XML, fails to achieve either of the demands. I also suggest you learn from the mistakes of others. SNMP uses a special "adapted subset" of ASN.1 and that has caused lots of problems over the years. dbh David Harrington ****@****enterasys.com co-chair, IETF SNMPv3 WG, concluded