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Re: [Rswg] draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams

Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> Sat, 28 October 2023 19:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Rswg] draft-mcquistin-augmented-ascii-diagrams
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On 2023-10-28, at 21:46, Stephen McQuistin <sm@smcquistin.uk> wrote:
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> To that end, would it make sense to split this document into two: (i) a definition of the underlying data model (essentially defining what _any_ protocol description language would need to capture to be able to do what we want to do); and (ii) a definition of the Augmented Packet Header Diagram format.

That depends a lot on what other tools generate/consume (i).
To me, being able to do this would be the main point of introducing this work into specification practice.
An ingestor of (ii) is what you seem to have now; I’d expect a complementary generator to emerge (which would be a pretty-printer in combination with the ingestor).

> I’m not sure which (R|W)G would be the best place for either/both of those.

Definitely the worst place: RSWG (which is neither an RG nor a WG).

Grüße, Carsten

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