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Re: ipsec error codes



>Another consumer might be an intrusion detection
>event correlator, although a working group has been formed which is
>devoted to trying to settle on some format for those messages, and one
>of the possiblities I heard mentioned was (gak!) ASN.1.

ASN.1 is not a format, its a language. A format would be ASN1 and a set of
encoding rules. There are several, BER, DER, PER. Depending upon what we
are really talking about ( the consumer of these error
codes/packets/messages?) such a format might be appropriate, then again it
might not.