Re: [OPSAWG] I-D Action: draft-ietf-opsawg-pcapng-00.txt

[Michael Tuexen via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org>]

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> From: Michael Tuexen <michael.tuexen () lurchi franken de>
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> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2023 22:05:11 +0100
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> > On 25. Jan 2023, at 21:33, Carsten Bormann <cabo () tzi org> wrote:
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> > On 25. Jan 2023, at 17:42, Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca> wrote:
> > > I am not sure that pcap*NG* is so incredibly established that we can't change
> > > it.  I just hate "Next Generation" for anything, particularly when time moves on.
> > > What about if we kept N and G, but changed what they meant?
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> > (SenML started as an XML vocabulary, but now is mostly JSON and CBOR — so we turned the “ML” into “Measurement Lists”.
> > Which is somewhat bizarre, but keeps the acronym.
> > For retronyming PCAPNG, what is central to PCAPNG that would explain the P, N, and G?)
> pcap, now generalized?
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> Best regards
> Michael
> > Grüße, Carsten
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