From owner-freebsd-security Sat Jul 15 4:28:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from mout0.freenet.de (mout0.freenet.de [194.97.50.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67FBD37B7A5 for ; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 04:28:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netchild@leidinger.net) Received: from [194.97.50.136] (helo=mx3.freenet.de) by mout0.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13DQ70-0006mj-00; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:28:02 +0200 Received: from a2c54.pppool.de ([213.6.44.84] helo=Magelan.Leidinger.net) by mx3.freenet.de with esmtp (Exim 3.15 #1) id 13DQ6z-0002vQ-00; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:28:01 +0200 Received: from Leidinger.net (netchild@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by Magelan.Leidinger.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01794; Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:02:01 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from netchild@Leidinger.net) Message-Id: <200007151102.NAA01794@Magelan.Leidinger.net> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:01:56 +0200 (CEST) From: Alexander Leidinger Subject: Re: RFC for Advisories? To: bokr@accessone.com Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.20000714142038.00908650@mail.accessone.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 14 Jul, Bengt Richter wrote: > There are a lot of RFCs for automated notifications over the internet. > Perhaps it would be useful to think of security advisories in this light. [...] > Establishment of a standard, platform-independent (sectioned to distinguish > generic vs platform/version-specific info) format suitable for human skimming > and automated processing could have widespread benefits (IMHO). [...] > HTIU (Hope this is useful) I think securityfocus is a much better place to make such a (good) system independand proposal. Please go ahead and share your ideas with them. Bye, Alexander. -- Press every key to continue. http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net GPG fingerprint = 7423 F3E6 3A7E B334 A9CC B10A 1F5F 130A A638 6E7E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message