[184189] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Security release scheduling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harlan Stenn)
Tue Sep 29 03:18:57 2015
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To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
From: Harlan Stenn <stenn@nwtime.org>
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 00:18:43 -0700
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On 9/28/15 11:08 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <560A13E6.7060509@nwtime.org>, Harlan Stenn writes:
>> I'm looking for some general "calendar" help to use for our security
>> release scheduling process. Something that usefully accounts for
>> clients all over the world.
>>
>> By "usefully accounts" I mean that we want to be able to have reasonable
>> confidence that we're not going to pick a public release date that is a
>> national holiday for one country, and we're also not going to avoid a
>> date because it's "let's order pizza" day somewhere else, but the
>> purpose of the holiday is obscured because of language translation issues.
>>
>> I figure this is something others must have solved, and I'm hoping some
>> folks on this list might be able to offer me some pointers.
>
> There's a national holiday basically everyday of the year.
>
> http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/
Thanks, Mark!
So much for that idea...
I guess the best we can hope for is to minimize the impact.
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Harlan Stenn <stenn@nwtime.org>
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