Re: The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures taxonomy

[Adam Shostack <adam () homeport org>]

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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