I don't think this is a big deal, but I tend to support Anton's view that "1" is a good match to the English language. Other than that, it also allows to detect a wrongly initialized counter on the client side, which could be used for a diagnostic entry. Obviously, a robust implementation SHOULD accept 0 when acting as a listener (but, as said, it MAY log a diagnostic entry).
As such, I propose to start *all* ordinal values at 1 and not at 0. Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Lonvick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 4:34 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Issue 5: First Message Number - Still needs review > > > Issue 5: First Message Number > http://www.employees.org/~lonvick/draft-ietf-syslog-sign-12.ht > ml#firstmsg > > From Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/syslog-sec%40employees.org/msg01228.html > > Similar to Issue 4, should the value of "0" or "1" be used as the > lowest available value? Albert again suggests "0". Any disagreement > to that? > > STATUS: No direct responses to this issue but Anton Okmianski suggests > using "1" as the start for ordinal values. > > From the Archive (see point 4) > http://www.mail-archive.com/syslog-sec%40employees.org/msg01265.html > > >
