Re: [IPFIX] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-trammell-ipfix-ie-doctors-00

Hi Brian,
I read this draft, and most of it seems good/useful/motherhood-and-apple-pie.

The only substantive comment/question I have is on section 9, the textual IESpec stuff.  Do we really need yet another textual representation of meta-data?  Isn't there already an XML-based one from rfc5102?  

I note your statement that the design goal was compactness and not needing XML support, but it's not clear why those properties matter when the meta-data is never on the wire in its textual form.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not an XML fan by any stretch, but I'd hate to have two textual representation formats for one protocol, and re-inventing the wheel with yet-another-new-format seems silly. (Nevermind that the IETF already uses SMI/ASN.1 for SNMP, XML for DIAMETER, ABNF for a HTTP/SIP/RTSP/SMTP/etc., defacto-standards for RADIUS and DNS, and who knows what else. :)

It's also kinda weird to have a new text format in a Guidelines doc.

-hadriel

On Oct 1, 2010, at 8:15 AM, Brian Trammell wrote:

> Greetings, all:
> 
> A first draft of the IE-Doctors draft discussed in Maastricht has been posted; this presents a reasonably complete discussion of the issues surrounding efficient extension of the Information Element registry and definition of new IPFIX applications in Internet-Drafts. We intend to discuss this as a future BCP at the meeting in Beijing. Reviews and comments in the meantime are of course appreciated. :)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Brian
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: IETF I-D Submission Tool <idsubmission@ietf.org>
>> Date: October 1, 2010 2:01:48 PM GMT+02:00
>> To: trammell@tik.ee.ethz.ch
>> Cc: bclaise@cisco.com
>> Subject: New Version Notification for draft-trammell-ipfix-ie-doctors-00 
>> 
>> 
>> A new version of I-D, draft-trammell-ipfix-ie-doctors-00.txt has been successfully submitted by Brian Trammell and posted to the IETF repository.
>> 
>> Filename:	 draft-trammell-ipfix-ie-doctors
>> Revision:	 00
>> Title:		 Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers of IPFIX Information Elements
>> Creation_date:	 2010-10-01
>> WG ID:		 Independent Submission
>> Number_of_pages: 22
>> 
>> Abstract:
>> This document provides guidelines for the definition of IPFIX
>> Information Elements for addition to the IANA IPFIX Information
>> Element registry, in order to extend the applicability of the IPFIX
>> protocol to new operations and management areas.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The IETF Secretariat.
>> 
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