The Security Issues in Network Event Logging (syslog) working group in the Security Area has concluded. The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Sean Turner. The syslog working group has completed its charter items, and is officially closing. The mailing list will be retained for future discussions involving syslog. The syslog working group was primarily focused on standardizing the syslog protocol for logging system events. Initially developed on the University of California Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) TCP/IP system implementations, syslog became the defacto standard. The SYSLOG working group standardized the protocol within the IETF. In total the working group published eight RFCs, including The Syslog Protocol (RFC 5424), Transmission of Syslog Messages over UDP (RFC 5426), Transport Layer Security (TLS) Transport Mapping for Syslog (RFC 5245), and Datagram Transport Layer Security (DTLS) Transport Mapping for Syslog (RFC 6012). I would like to thank all of the IETF participants who have contributed to the various documents produced by the syslog working group and to the successful completion of these important deliverables. We especially thank Chris Lonvick and David Harrington who have chaired the working group from its inception. I would also like to recognize Eric Allman, who is the original inventor and author of the syslog daemon and protocol. The syslog mailing list will remain open and the list archive will be retained. - Sean Turner _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
