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I have uploaded a new SRFI-96 to
http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/~jaffer/srfi/srfi-96.html with some
clarifications and a new Issues section:
Issues
It would be good to have a definitive set of operating-system names
for software-type. RFC-3232 says that the operating-system list
which originated in RFC-952 and ended with RFC-1700 is no longer
defined by a RFC:
Since 1994, this sequence of RFCs have been replaced by an
online database accessible through a web page (currently,
www.iana.org). The purpose of the present RFC is to note this
fact and to officially obsolete RFC 1700, whose status changes
to Historic. RFC 1700 is obsolete, and its values are
incomplete and in some cases may be wrong.
We expect this series to be revived in the future by the new
IANA organization.
That was in January 2002. The revival has not occurred. The web
page seems to be
http://www.iana.org/assignments/operating-system-names. Last
updated 2002-04-29, it is six years out-of-date. Even for the the
operating-systems it does address, it isn't consistent. Some
operating-systems appear without version; some appear only with
versions; some appear both ways. MSDOS appears without a hyphen or
version while the entries for SunOS are SUN-OS-3.5, SUN-OS-4.0, and
SUN. For MicroSoft Windows there are 12 varieties (none with MS or
Microsoft), all with versions separated by hypens and a lone WIN32.