Updating IANA "Operating System Names" registry

Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@gmail.com> Sun, 24 January 2010 20:39 UTC

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Subject: Updating IANA "Operating System Names" registry
From: Anthony Bryan <anthonybryan@gmail.com>
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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

There's MACOS but not MACOS-10.0 or MACOS-X-10.0, MACOS-X-10.1, etc.

I've been told the registry can be updated with an email, so I wanted
to check if anyone had suggestions for other additions?

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

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