Meta Info

Related to syslog-protocol issue 3
Post by: Rainer Gerhards
Date: 2004-01-08

Content:

> Meta-data is ok, although I would have preferred referring to these as
> just "tags" 

I try to stay away from this, as we have a field (even traditionally)
called TAG in the header. I think a second "tag" causes at least light confusion ;)

> since this part of the message is not necessarily going to
> be "data about data".  It could be just a well-structured part of the
> entire message and may carry data no different then the rest of the
> message other than formatting. 
> 
> If you go with meta-data, please note that the correct 
> spelling is with
> a hyphen.  The word "Metadata" (one word and with no hyphen) 
> appears to
> be trademarked.
> 
> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=metadata

oops... thanks for spotting this!

Rainer

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