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Re: Updating the Kerberos FAQ

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Fri Jun 27 15:08:06 1997

To: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>
Cc: krbdev@MIT.EDU, jik@cam.ov.com
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 27 Jun 1997 15:04:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: Ken Hornstein's message of Fri, 27 Jun 1997 14:47:34 -0400

Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil> writes:

>> As many people have noticed, the Kerberos FAQ (which can be found at
>> http://www.cam.ov.com/misc/krb-faq.html), has been suffering from extreme
>> staleness as of late (for example, the newest version it talks about
>> is beta 5).
>> 
>> Obviously, someone needs to do some serious updating on it.  I'm willing
>> to take on this task.
>> 
>> I've sent email to the address mentioned in the FAQ (ov-info@cam.ov.com)
>> saying that I would be willing to take over the maintenance of the FAQ,
>> but I never received a reply.

The person who used to maintain the FAQ at OV before he left was Barry
Jaspan <bjaspan@mit.edu>, who is on this list.  The person who would
be best to contact there is Jon Kamens <jik@cam.ov.com>.

>> I'm trying to do the "right" thing here and not step on anyone's toes,
>> but I'm at a loss as to how to proceed from here.  I'd really hate to
>> have TWO versions of the Kerberos FAQ.  Does anyone know who (if anyone)
>> maintains the FAQ nowadays, and how to get in touch with them?  If the
>> FAQ is truely dead, would anyone object if I just made a new one?

		Marc

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