Re: TransportDomain. Was: Re: [Syslog] Submission ofdraft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-12.txt

[Juergen Schoenwaelder <j.schoenwaelder@iu-bremen.de>]

On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 07:17:18PM +0100, tom.petch wrote:

> I am not convinced that the proposed solutions match the underlying problem.
> 
> Syslog:
>  - can be -protocol or RFC3164 (or RFC3164bis or ...)
>  - may be signed.
>  - may be secured with TLS (or SSH or DTLS or  ...)
>  - could run over UDP or TCP (or SCTP or ..)
> 
> What we have then done is to bind -protocol to TLS to TCP in a
> package and asked IANA for a port number less that 1024 for that
> combination
> 
> So I think that trying to analyse it in terms of, eg, InetAddressType,
> InetAddress, InetPortNumber and SyslogEncapsulation won't work.

I don't get your message - can you enlighten us please?

/js

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