Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] New toplevel Telephone menu item
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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:15:23 +0100
Michael Tüxen schrieb:

That sound like an excellent idea...


Hmmm, I'm not that sure.


On Jan 29, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Guy Harris wrote:


On Jan 29, 2009, at 12:27 AM, Michael Tüxen wrote:
I like the idea, but I do not think that the SCTP related items should 
be moved there. It is correct that SCTP was originally developed in
for the telephony environment, but it is a general transport protocol
nowadays.

I don't see any reason why a given statistic must be in only one menu;
for example, I could imagine a "Web" menu with HTTP statistics and WAP
statistics, with WAP statistics also in the "Telephony" menu, and I
could also see a "Transport" menu with SCTP (and TCP and...) and
possibly also have it (and TCP?) in a "Telephony" menu.


IMHO there is one big issue with this idea.
If I find SCTP under Statistics and also under Telephony I would expect *different* functionality - just to figure out by experiment that the functionality is exactly the same. 

That's not really intuitive.
I really would tend to keep the entries only in one category. I don't really mind in which one - I'm not an expert in this regard.
@Michael: Let's make a deal. You're extending the SCTP wiki page http://wiki.wireshark.org/SCTP a bit (it's currently only mentioning telephony) and I'll move the entry from Telephony to Statistics :-) 

Regards, ULFL