Hi Folks, I've had some discussions with several people and have looked closely at what we're doing with the definitions of the syslog protocol in the syslog-sign ID along with what Rainer has been proposing for the syslog-international ID. http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-syslog-sign-13.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-syslog-international-00.txt
It appears that the idea of the cookies may be used for several future items. It doesn't seen appropriate to standardize the cookies in syslog-sign so we've taken a look at producing separate documents for syslog-sign and for the definition of the syslog-protocol. The important part of the Working Group process is that we have consensus on what we are doing and how we are getting there. I'd like to ask Rainer to produce syslog-protocol-00 with the concepts and protocol definitions that we've been putting into the syslog-sign ID. If that opens enough doors for the future extensibility of the protocol then I feel that we can quickly remove those parts from the current syslog-sign ID to produce a mechanism that fulfils the intent of authenticating syslog messages and yet remains transport independent. I believe that we have consensus on the signing aspects of syslog-sign at this time and that trimmed ID could go to Last Call quickly so we can focus our attention on the syslog protocol. After all of the discussions we've had I suspect that the syslog-protocol ID can also move on to Last Call quickly. Is there anyone opposed to looking at a syslog-protocol-00 ID at this time? As said, I think that the effort to produce this should be minimal since we've had so many good discussions about it in the past, and since syslog-sign is in such good shape. When that is entered into the ID repository, I'd like to ask that we look at separating the protocol from the contents of syslog-sign. Again, that effort should be minimal and we can progress the ID quickly from there as a mechanism that is independent of the underlying syslog protocol but will add immense value where used. Thanks, Chris
