Re: The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures taxonomy

From: Adam Shostack (adamat_private)
Date: Thu Oct 21 1999 - 12:59:25 PDT

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    Outstanding!
    
    I had forgotten about concordances.  Thats a great word, for people
    who know what it means. :)
    
    CVE is a concordance.  mmm.  Thanks!
    
    
    Adam
    
    
    On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 02:46:59PM -0400, Anton J Aylward wrote:
    
    | (* 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.
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