Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] [RFC] specially mark protocol fields "generated" by Ethereal?

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2004 19:01:38 +0200
Hi List!
It's sometimes confusing to distinguish between protocol fields derived from the capture data and fields that are generated by Ethereal while dissecting "from knowledge" (e.g. from context information). 

Example:
In the DCE-RPC dissecting are some protocol fields generated by knowlegde from context, like a hint to the response in a request packet, looking like. 

Response in frame: 10
This means that the response PDU to the current one is in packet 10. This protocol field has no data representation inside the packet.
From the DCE/RPC desegmenting, I got the idea to put some brackets (what's the correct english name for this brackets?) around the Ethereal generated info, so this will look like: 

[Response in frame]: 1
I've checked in an example of this in the DCERPC dissector (but I can easily remove it again, if others really don't like it).
What do others think of the idea, to put this brackets around field names of Ethereal generated protocol fields in general? 

Regards, ULFL