Re: [DNSOP] [Ext] Alexey Melnikov's Discuss on draft-ietf-dnsop-dns-capture-format-08: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

[Warren Kumari <[e-mail]>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:53 AM Jim Hague <[e-mail]> wrote:

> On 28/11/2018 14:45, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, at 1:38 PM, Sara Dickinson wrote:
>
> >> Paul is correct in that the _intention_ of including these fields is
> >> just to provide informational meta data about the capturing process. I
> >> would suggest we change the first sentence of the section to be:
> >>
> >> “Parameters providing information to how data in the file was
> >> collected (applicable for some, but not all collection environments).
> >> The values are informational only and serve as hints to downstream
> >> analysers as to the configuration of a collecting implementation. They
> >> can provide context when interpreting what data is present/absent from
> >> the capture but cannot necessarily be validated against the data
> >> captured.”
> > I can live with that, but I would like you to in particular add a note
> > that pcap filter value should not be trusted, as it effectively can
> > contain arbitrary text string.
>
> OK, thanks. We will do that.
>

Excellent! Please let me know (LOUDLY) once you've had a chance to do so
(and the other comments too).


> >> Given that, I’m hoping the short reference is
> >> acceptable http://www.tcpdump.org/manpages/pcap-filter.7.html?
> > Yes.
>
>
WFM!
W



> Thanks.
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