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Re: Updating IANA "Operating System Names" registry

Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org> Sun, 24 January 2010 22:29 UTC

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Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:29:08 -0800
To: Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@gmail.com>, apps-discuss@ietf.org
From: Paul Hoffman <phoffman@imc.org>
Subject: Re: Updating IANA "Operating System Names" registry
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At 3:39 PM -0500 1/24/10, Anthony Bryan wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The IANA registry "Operating System Names" found at
>http://www.iana.org/assignments/operating-system-names is missing a
>few recent common OSes.
>
>LINUX-2.6
>WINDOWS-NT-6
>WINDOWS-NT-6.1

...where "few" means "most".

This registry is a complete mess. Linux is listed by kernel versions, not distro versions, but FreeBSD is only listed once.

>(My ID http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-bryan-metalink allows file
>publishers to list what OS a file is intended for).

Given the state of the registry and the number of people-hours that will be wasted on arguing what should and should not be in it, I suggest that simply removing "The IANA registry named "Operating System Names" defines values for OS types." and then letting the registry rot is probably a better use of everyone's time.

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