Subject: Re: [IPFIX] Review: draft-ietf-ipfix-structured-data-02.txt

From: Paul Aitken <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 12:02:08 +0000

Dear All,

Regarding this text:

     The Exporter SHOULD NOT check all semantically meaningless
     combinations before exporting the Data Record.

In recent versions this changed from "SHOULD NOT" to "doesn't have to" 
to "may".

The original intention was to say that the exporter should just do what 
it's told and export data coming from the metering process without 
additional validation.

However, it seems that some implementations may actually want to do this.

So we simply removed this line from the draft.

Thanks,
P.

>   Hi Gerhard,
>
> Thanks for the follow up.
> Changed in my temp version from:
>
>     The Exporter SHOULD NOT check all semantically meaningless
>     combinations before exporting the Data Record.
>
>
> To
>
>     The Exporting Process doesn't have to check all semantically
>     meaningless combinations before exporting the Data Record.
>
>
> Regards, Benoit.
>> Benoit,
>>
>> On 29.09.2010 10:09, Benoit Claise wrote:
>>>>>       The Exporter SHOULD NOT check all semantically meaningless
>>>>>       combinations before exporting the Data Record.
>>>> I do not understand.
>>>> SHOULD NOT =>  SHOULD
>>>> or
>>>> SHOULD NOT =>  "does not have to"
>>> does not have to.
>>> In IPFIX structured data, we can express some complex (or stupid)
>>> semantic. It's not the responsibility of the  exporter to check if what
>>> is encoded makes sense from a semantic point of view.
>> I do not see this comment addressed because "SHOULD NOT" still appears
>> in -03.
>> Are you actually talking about the Exporting Process and not the
>> Exporter? Then, you might want to replace "Exporter" as well.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gerhard
>>
>>
>
>
>
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