[sip-clf] Implementation - Code and Results

[Peter Musgrave <[e-mail]>]

HI all,

http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/sipclf/trac/wiki/WikiStart

contains some sample output files and the core Java code I used to generate
each log format.

My general feelings:
- indexed ASCII files are bigger (by about 1.5 x) but that's not a very big
factor when bytes on disk are so cheap (people coding on small devices may
feel differently)
- coding indexed ASCII logging is easier and the code is smaller
- IPFIX implementation required me to dig through some other docs
  (so for this to be accepted by implementors then I think sample code would
be mandatory)
- examining IPFIX files when debugging the logger was tedious (Hadriel's
wireshark plugin was very helpful here - he found several bugs in my IPFIX
logger)
  [but I think we all knew that a binary format would be like that]
- creating a python script to read indexed ASCII was very simple

I think the exercise was useful in that it did help sharpen each of the
implementation drafts.

I'll leave it to the chair to figure out how to move this forward.

Oh, wait, that's me....

Peter Musgrave
(as individual)