Re: Updating IANA "Operating System Names" registry

On 1/26/10 11:15 AM, Thomas Narten wrote:
>> 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.

+1. Who uses it, how extensively, and (these days) why?

Peter

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