Re: Guideline for Restricting Software

[Scott Bradner <sob () HARVARD EDU>]

> What we're working on now is a lower-level guideline / standard or
> whatever you care to call such a document.  Its purpose is to identify
> specific categories (and occasionally specific products) that are
> restricted, possibly prohibited, and would require authorization to
> install / use.

it would seem to me that approaching this issue with teh idea of talking
about specific programs is teh wrong approach - it will not scale and will
be hard to keep up to date

for admin users I would suggest just saying that all software added
to a machine must be OKed by a supervisor (this will not work for
researchers & students)

Scott

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