I think these legal requirements are stupid. But there is no way that I would regard adherence to Rob and Ari's slapped together log format a defense against non-compliance. If you have a legal obligation you have an obligation, end of story. The W3C log format I designed is supported by all the Web servers I use and allows for most data imaginable to be logged. On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 4:49 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen <arnt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A really big NAT serving, say, eighteen million customers, can easily be so > dense that if there's a bit of clock skew between a web server and the NAT > operator, another customer might have used the same port at the time > recorded by the web server. > > Therefore, I think it's safer to say that it's the NAT operator's > responsibility to log enough. Umpteen million web sites will continue to use > apache's common log format, so the NAT operator has to log what's needed to > work with that format anyway. > > Arnt > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf > -- -- New Website: http://hallambaker.com/ View Quantum of Stupid podcasts, Tuesday and Thursday each week, http://quantumofstupid.com/ _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf