On Thursday, October 21, 1999 12:39 PM Adam Shostack [mailto:adamat_private] said: > > "the CVE is also not a database" Thus, I'm saying, in agreement with > what Scott and Russ posted, that its not a taxonomy nor a database. > > | Of course you could just stop calling it a "taxonomy" and I'll stop > | berating you for it. > > I never called it a taxonomy. Stop anytime. :) ;-) > Good, we can agree now. (* nods vigorously *) On one of my shelves, as a left over from a time at the seminary (lets not go onto that) I have a book that cross references words in the various versions of the bible. It does this across not just different translations (yes, I know the idea that there could be anything other than the king James is an anathema to some people) but across the vulgate, Greek and Aramaic. It called a CONCORDANCE. It occurs to me that this is a better description of what the CVE is trying to do than calling it a database or a taxonomy. Just a thought. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Anton J Aylward, CISSP | The Internet is not the greatest System Integrity | threat to information security; InfoSec Auditing & Consulting | stupidity is the greatest threat Voice: (416) 421-8182 | to information security. ajaat_private | Will Spencer <will.spencerat_private>
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