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Re: Updating IANA "Operating System Names" registry

Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> Tue, 26 January 2010 18:15 UTC

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Subject: Re: Updating IANA "Operating System Names" registry
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:15:49 -0500
From: Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com>
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> The IANA registry "Operating System Names" found at
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/operating-system-names is missing a
> few recent common OSes.

More to the point, who uses this registry and who cares?  It is old,
and probably stopped serving a useful purpose years ago.

What protocols make use of the registry?

Absent a real usage, the registry should either be shutdown, or just
quietly left alone.

Thomas

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