Re: [OPSAWG] [tcpdump-workers] New Version Notification for draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng-02.txt

Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de> Mon, 28 September 2020 20:42 UTC

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Subject: Re: [OPSAWG] [tcpdump-workers] New Version Notification for draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng-02.txt
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Without OPSWG...
> On 28. Sep 2020, at 22:23, Guy Harris via tcpdump-workers <tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org> wrote:
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> From: Guy Harris <gharris@sonic.net>
> Subject: Re: New Version Notification for draft-tuexen-opsawg-pcapng-02.txt
> Date: 28. September 2020 at 22:23:33 CEST
> To: Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de>
> Cc: Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca>, pcap-ng-format@winpcap.org, opsawg@ietf.org, Jasper Bongertz <jasper@packet-foo.com>, tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org, Fulvio Risso <fulvio.risso@polito.it>, Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
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> On Sep 28, 2020, at 12:06 PM, Michael Tuexen <tuexen@fh-muenster.de> wrote:
> 
>> Do we want to finally publish that? Up to now, I think the point was to
>> find a home where it is substantially discussed and improved...
> 
> For example, unlike pcap, which is not easily changeable (you *can* change it, but that involves adding new magic numbers), pcapng can have new block types and option types.
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> There are extensible protocols with RFCs; that's handled with protocol registries:
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> 	https://www.iana.org/protocols
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> and with new I-Ds -> RFCs for extensions.  We'd have to set up registries for block and option types if we publish an RFC for pcapng.  We would *also* want a registry for link-layer header types, for both pcap and pcapng.
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> See, for example, RFC 1761
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> 	https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1761
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> which specifies the Sun snoop file format, and RFC 3827:
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> 	https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3827
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> which sets up a registry for snoop link-layer header types:
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> 	https://www.iana.org/assignments/snoop-datalink-types/snoop-datalink-types.xhtml#snoop-datalink-types-2
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> and adds some new entries to it.
So we can make use of IANA. Shouldn't we write up (I can work on an initial version) of
a specification for .pcap. Would you volunteer as a co-author?
Establish there the link layer header type IANA registry?

We can reuse that for the .pcapng spec...

Best regards
Michael
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