RE: The nomenclature process in other fields

[Gene Spafford <spaf@cs.purdue.edu>]

At 11:54 AM -0400 5/19/99, Craig Ozancin wrote: > > enumeration != taxonomy > >True, But can we draw parallels between the two? My former student, Ivan Krsul, had a long explanation about the difference between the two in his Ph.D. thesis. Basically, we don't have underlying morphological or ontological structures identified that will allow us to come up with an unambiguous taxonomy at this time. An enumeration is about the best we can hope for without further research and insight into the nature of vulnerabilities (and the policies on which they depend). --spaf