[Syslog] I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-17.txt

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	Title		: The syslog Protocol
	Author(s)	: R. Gerhards
	Filename	: draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-17.txt
	Pages		: 45
	Date		: 2006-6-15

This document describes the syslog protocol, which is used to convey
event notification messages.  This protocol utilizes a layered
architecture, which allows the use of any number of transport
protocols for transmission of syslog messages.  It also provides a
message format that allows vendor-specific extensions to be provided
in a structured way.

This document has been written with the spirit of traditional syslog
in mind.  The reason for a new layered specification has arisen
because standardization efforts for reliable, and secure syslog
extensions suffer from the lack of a standards-track and transport
independent RFC.  Without this document, each other standard needs to
define its own syslog packet format and transport mechanism, which
over time will introduce subtle compatibility issues.  This document
tries to provide a foundation that syslog extensions can build on.
This layered architecture approach also provides a solid basis that
allows code to be written once for each syslog feature rather than
once for each transport.

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