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Re: Registration of media type for libpcap-format capture files
From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi () gmx net>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:25:16 +0100
* Phil Vandry wrote:
We would like to request some clarification concerning the process established by RFC 4288 for regstering new types. Sections 3.1 and 5 state that registrations in the standards tree must either come from the IETF itself (in which case they must be published as RFCs) or from another "recognized standards body". However, the libpcap development community represents neither the IETF nor a recognized standards body, to our knowledge. How do you advise that the registration be made? Can the IETF sponsor an application that we prepare?
My recommendation would be to take what existing specification of the file format you have, turn that into an Internet-Draft, and have that published e.g. as Informational RFC. Type registration would then be a simple matter of including a filled-out RFC 4288 template and note that in the IANA considerations section. Looking at http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/LibpcapFileFormat that should be rather simple. You might want to consider using a IANA registry for the `network` field, but that shouldn't be necessary. The alternative would be a vendor type registration, it should be perfectly fine to use, e.g., application/libpcap.pcap, even if there is no par- ticular "libpcap" vendor behind the format. For background information on Internet-Draft authoring and publication see e.g. <http://www.ietf.org/ID.html> and <http://xml.resource.org/>. -- Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern () hoehrmann de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de Am Badedeich 7 · Telefon: +49(0)160/4415681 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de 25899 Dagebüll · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/ - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
Current thread:
- Registration of media type for libpcap-format capture files Phil Vandry (Dec 12)
- Re: Registration of media type for libpcap-format capture files Bjoern Hoehrmann (Dec 16)
- Re: Registration of media type for libpcap-format capture files Guy Harris (Dec 19)
- Re: Registration of media type for libpcap-format capture files Bjoern Hoehrmann (Dec 16)