Re: Note on reliability (was: RE: Subject Name verification policy)

+1

dbh 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 5:24 PM
> To: [email protected]; [email protected]
> Subject: Note on reliability (was: RE: Subject Name 
> verification policy)
> 
> David Harrington wrote:
> > [...]
> > > All of this discussion would really be advanced education on 
> > > the error recovery capabilities of TCP and is not syslog
specific 
> > > in any way.
> > 
> > I disagree. I think Rainer pointed out that the lack of an 
> application
> > ACK limits reliability, and the lack of a syslog ACK is definitely
> > syslog specific. A small note to this effect in the security
> > considerations should be adequate.
> 
> I agree that a short note would be good. Here's my proposal,
> slightly expanding Rainer's text:
> 
>   It should be noted that the syslog transport specified in this
>   document does not use application-layer acknowledgments.  TCP uses
>   retransmissions to provide protection against some forms of data
>   loss. However, if the TCP connection (or TLS session) is broken
for
>   some reason (or closed by the transport receiver), the syslog
>   transport sender cannot always know what messages were
successfully
>   delivered to the syslog application at the other end.
> 
> Best regards,
> Pasi
> 

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