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The BIND Forum and the maintenance of critical softwareThe BIND Forum and the maintenance of critical softwarePosted Nov 28, 2002 9:03 UTC (Thu) by beejaybee (guest, #1581)Parent article: The BIND Forum and the maintenance of critical software If this makes a "true open source" alternative to BIND more of a realistic proposition, then everyone will gain in the end. (Yes, I'm aware that there are alternatives now - but none have critical mass). The point here is that the Internet really needs multiple implementations of protocols critical to its infrastructure; at present a serious flaw discovered in BIND could effectively destroy the whole network infrastructure. Widespread deployment of alternative implementations would give the network at least some capability to keep running whilst a problem was fixed. So I'm sort of positive to the BIND Forum, though I'm opposed to the idea of spinning off "elite" groups based mainly on funding by major corporations.
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