[gPXE-devel] Etherboot Enterprise ID request

[Michael Brown]

On Wednesday 14 Jul 2010 22:25:09 Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Did you receive the ack request to change contact information for our
> > Enterprise ID?  If so, would you ack it so we can use the one that was
> > assigned to us?
> >
> > If there's a reason why you prefer not to do this please tell me what it
> > is. I'd really like to get this done soon so we can update our code.
> 
> I prefer not to.  Marty you and Michael Brown have not successfully
> figured out how to work with each other, and neither of you alone
> appears to me to be a proper successor of the etherboot project.
> 
> When I registered this number I figured I was the contact person
> holding this number in trust for the etherboot project, and I figure I
> still am.
> 
> The open source successors of etherboot are free to use that
> Enterprise id as they see fit.  However if it comes to a disagreement
> that can not be resolved in a peaceable manner and some one has to
> make an arbitrary decision I volunteer to be the outside arbiter that
> makes that decision.

Fine by me; I trust Eric to make a sound technical decision.

Marty: changing the enterprise ID number in the iSCSI implementation doesn't 
alter the copyright status.  If you're really concerned about this particular 
instance of your continuing to use my enterprise ID in my code then you could 
use the ISID "Random" option, which doesn't require any IANA-assigned numbers.  
(RFC 3720 section 10.12.5, if you haven't read it yet.)

Michael