Re: [liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-20 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On 08/04/2014 08:45 AM, Charles Haynes wrote: Totally agree with Travis. Also - who is the intended audience for this? People who want to know how the different layers of the OSI stack work in practice? -- Charles On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Travis Biehn tbi...@gmail.com

Re: [liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-04 Thread Charles Haynes
Totally agree with Travis. Also - who is the intended audience for this? People who want to know how the different layers of the OSI stack work in practice? -- Charles On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 10:27 PM, Travis Biehn tbi...@gmail.com wrote: Think it might be useful to, like, pin this to an OSI

Re: [liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-03 Thread danimoth
On 02/08/14 at 07:36am, Rich Kulawiec wrote: I think this list is a pretty good starting point. Of course, having said that, now I want to edit it. ;) IMHO the idea is pretty stupid. The implementation also, because nobody mentioned a compiler.. lol, how to waste time -- Liberationtech is

Re: [liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-03 Thread Bill Woodcock
Without making any claims as to the value of maintaining such a list, I'll point out that I included gcc. -Bill On Aug 3, 2014, at 3:06, danimoth danim...@cryptolab.net wrote: On 02/08/14 at 07:36am, Rich Kulawiec wrote: I think this list is a pretty good starting

Re: [liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-02 Thread Rich Kulawiec
I think this list is a pretty good starting point. Of course, having said that, now I want to edit it. ;) On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:21:12PM -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote: BIND NSD add unbound, I think Sendmail add postfix, exim, courier add

Re: [liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-02 Thread Travis Biehn
Starting it on Wikipedia? BGP. On Aug 2, 2014 7:36 AM, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org wrote: I think this list is a pretty good starting point. Of course, having said that, now I want to edit it. ;) On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 02:21:12PM -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote: BIND NSD

Re: [liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-02 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Aug 2, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Travis Biehn tbi...@gmail.com wrote: Starting it on Wikipedia? Not sure it’s appropriate for Wikipedia, since it’s just a list of people’s opinions, rather than anything remotely objective, but:

[liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-01 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
Is there anything like a database for software that is critical to a functioning internet? Best, Jonathan -- Liberationtech is public archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech.

Re: [liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

2014-08-01 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Aug 1, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Is there anything like a database for software that is critical to a functioning internet? That’s a really interesting question. We maintain databases of critical Internet _infrastructure_, but not software. I suspect