Re: [tcpdump-workers] New RFCs for 1) pcap file format and 2) rpcapd protocol?

[Michael Tuexen <michael.tuexen () lurchi franken de>]

> On 21. Mar 2020, at 23:10, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf () sandelman ca> wrote:
>
>
> Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org> wrote:
> > Currently, on GitHub, there's a "pcapng" team:
> > https://github.com/pcapng
>
> > with one repository containing the pcapng specification, and a "the-tcpdump-group" team:
>
> > https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group
> > with repositories for libpcap, tcpdump, and the tcpdump.org Web site.
>
> > It makes sense to me to keep those specifications on a site such as
> > GitHub; GitHub comes to mind first because that's where pcapng
> > currently is.
>
> > 1) add them as repositories to the pcapng team;
>
> > 1) has the slight disadvantage that the name for the team suggests it's
> > for pcapng only; it appears that teams can be renamed:
>
> ...
>
> > Were we to rename it, I don't know what would be a good new name.
>
> I'm good with pcapng, because I also have no other suggestion.
> I would like to restart the opsawg work on an IETF specification for this.
I would support this. However, last time I tried this, I was not successful.
There were not very interested in defining a file format...
Maybe things have changed, but I don't know.


Best regards
Michael
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF () sandelman ca>, Sandelman Software Works
> -= IPv6 IoT consulting =-
>
>
>
> ___________________________________________________________________________
> Sent via:    Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>
> Archives:    https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev
> Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev
>             mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe

___________________________________________________________________________
Sent via:    Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>
Archives:    https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev
Unsubscribe: https://www.wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev
             mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe