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Re: [OPSAWG] 🔔 WG Adoption Call for draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng-03

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 21 October 2021 19:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] 🔔 WG Adoption Call for draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng-03
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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    > While the original pcap format has held up very well over time, a more
    > modern format is needed for some applications.  Pcapng is widely agreed
    > to be that(*), and publishing a specification that has had input from
    > the operational community is an important next step.  I support WG
    > adoption of this draft.

    > Grüße, Carsten

    > (*) even if I would have preferred it to use CBOR — but CBOR would have
    > had to be around much earlier to enable that choice.

There are a number ways in which I'd like to extend pcapng, and CBOR would
fit nicely them.


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