[liberationtech] Internet Infrastructure Software Database

[Bill Woodcock]

On Aug 1, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Jonathan Wilkes <jancsika at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Is there anything like a database for software that is critical to a functioning internet?

That’s a really interesting question.  We maintain databases of critical Internet _infrastructure_, but not software.

I suspect that a software list would be even more controversial and subjective than infrastructure.  But that doesn’t make it less worthwhile to track.

A few starting points:

    Applications and Libraries:
        BIND
        NSD
        Sendmail
        GnuPG and/or OpenPGP
        OpenDNSSEC
        Apache/httpd
        sshd
        OpenSSL
        MySQL
        PostgreSQL
        PHP
        Perl
        Safari
        Firefox
        Chrome
        CyrusSASL
        FreeRADIUS
        Nginx
        haproxy
        memcached

    Operating systems:
        Cisco IOS
        Juniper JunOS
        Some Linux variants, like CentOS
        VMware hypervisor
        KVM hypervisor

What makes something critical?  It seems like it needs to occupy a critical niche (a function that is, itself, important), be widely used, and have few easily-substituted alternatives.

                                -Bill