Subject: Re: identd not responding (?)
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@lyssa.owl.de>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: current-users
Date: 02/25/1996 18:58:04
"Matthias Scheler" writes:
> > ... there's no OS name registered for UNIX-alikes that aren't real
> > UNIX, and certainly none for NetBSD itself.
> 
> Yes, I discovered that myself while looking into RFC 1700. Why don't
> we simply register "NetBSD-1.0", "NetBSD-1.1" and maybe "NetBSD-current"
> at the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority?

Er, just one thing: except for some obnoxious folks, most of the OSes
registered with the IANA are not versioned, that is, its TOPS20 or
UNIX. Admittedly there are some exceptions, but there is no real
reason not to just do NETBSD without qualification.

Perry