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Re: Reasons why BIND isn't being upgraded

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Fumerola)
Sat Feb 3 20:25:24 2001

Date: Sat, 3 Feb 2001 17:45:15 -0600
From: Bill Fumerola <billf@mu.org>
To: mdevney@teamsphere.com
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@mfnx.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:37:10PM -0800, mdevney@teamsphere.com wrote:

> The category "OS vendors" gets a little fishy... Do Linus Torvalds and
> Alan Cox get on the list if they sign the NDA?  How about Patrick
> Volkerding?  Someone like Microsoft or Sun obviously qualifies, but with
> respect to Open Source OSes, fact is *everyone* is an OS vendor at some
> level.  

Most open source OS projects have a defined leadership and possibly a security
team or a security officer, so determining who qualifies should be a simple
enough task.

I offer my condolences to whoever at ISC has to determine which of the seven
billion Linux distros they consider large enough to warrant membership.

-- 
Bill Fumerola / billf@FreeBSD.org





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