Re: why many CVEs are ** RESERVED ** on Mitre

[Marcus Meissner <meissner () suse de>]

On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 03:17:57PM +0000, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> On 14/12/2016 15:09, Kurt Seifried wrote:
> > I would suggest you consider getting involved in helping create CVEs if it
> > is such an important resource, rather then just being a somewhat classic
> > "Free rider"
> >
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_rider_problem
>
> Would creating CVEs help with the reservations of already disclosed CVEs?

There is a clear allocation strategy for CVEs, using a multi tiered tree
of CNA (candidate naming authorities)

CVEs are not randomly grabbed but assigned by these CNAs.

Ciao, Marcus