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Re: [sip-clf] A syslog approach to sip logging

Adam Roach <adam@nostrum.com> Thu, 04 February 2010 05:13 UTC

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Subject: Re: [sip-clf] A syslog approach to sip logging
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On 02/03/2010 10:16 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote:
>
>    
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: sip-clf-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:sip-clf-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf
>> Of Cullen Jennings
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 6:39 PM
>>
>> One requirement that I suspect you will find fairly universal about
>> transporting around SIP log like informations is that
>>
>> 1) it is reliable
>>
>> 2) we can include complete SIP messages. These can get very large. (Magnus
>> posted a 40k SDP to the mmusic awhile back, don't even ask how large
>> MESSAGE messages get in the wild)
>>      
> Also, if it is required for it to support including complete SIP messages, then it has to support binary content, since those can be in SIP message bodies (e.g., ISUP, QSIG).
>    


And even if it isn't required to transport complete messages, the 
various fields that are clearly within the scope of even the most basic 
logging can contain UTF-8 characters, which means *almost* any octets 
can potentially appear in these fields anyway.

/a

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