Re: [sip-clf] Using the PEN

Fantastic! Thanks Chris.

We'll proceed with my proposal and be very clear as to the treatment of PEN, including PEN=0, with respect to the logging of optional fields.

Thanks again.

--Gonzalo

On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Chris Lonvick wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I ran the question of using PEN=0 and PEN=<vendor id> past a few people.
> 
> IANA did not have an opinion.
> 
> David Harrington, the author of RFC5612 thinks that it would be good.
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5612.txt
> 
> The best response I got was from Dan Romascanu who wrote:
>>> PENs are using in various protocols and the usage of Enterprise Numbers
>>> may (at least in theory) be different from protocol to protocol, so it
>>> would be best if the respective protocol documents refer explicitly how
>>> 'special' values like 0 are used. True, the convention that 0 is the
>>> value reserved for IETF standards is widely used (for example to
>>> identify standard notifications in SMI) but as SIP-CLF defines a
>>> different DML I would suggest that adopting the convention is OK, and
>>> mentioning it explicitly is best.
> 
> Bert Wijnen agreed with Dan.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
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