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Frequently Asked Questions
By becoming a member you will have access to the most current
DHCP-related information and the opportunity to have input into
the ongoing development of DHCP. Membership in the DHCP Forum
enables and encourages both vendors and users of ISC's DHCP
software to have a closer association with ISC and among
themselves. Members help to guarantee the continued development
of ISC DHCP as a high quality implementation.
Members will also help ensure that development, integration and
publication of ISC's software continues uninterrupted and at the
pace the Internet community requires.
Go to the membership section of the website,
complete a membership agreement, and submit payment to ISC.
Membership dues are based upon the level of
membership selected and size criteria. Dues begin as low as 1,000USD.
Please complete the membership application and a quote will be sent to you.
Special consideration is given for nonprofit groups and Universities.
Individual membership are 200USD per year.
All members receive the following benefits:
- The continued development and maintenance of ISC DHCP;
- Direct notification of patches;
- Read-only access to the ISC DHCP CVS repository;
- Invitations to annual ISC DHCP developers workshop and Forum membership meetings;
- ISC's representation on the standards bodies to promote a strong ISC DHCP code base, high
quality protocol development for DHCP, and healthy competition among vendors without
proprietary extensions to the DHCP protocols.
The only major difference is that individual members will not have
access to early security notices, primarily because the costs to
administer and monitor the early notifications exceed this
membership fee. A secondary reason is that it is essential that
members comply with the NDA for early notification and it is too
difficult to monitor compliance with the NDA for our individual
members.
In reality a sponsor is a patron, see Patron category above
in the membership descriptions.
A private website, access controlled. You will be given a
password. CVS access via SSH or CVSweb. Security notification
service requires that a contact person provide ISC with a PGP key
for our notification members' keyring, to be validated by ISC staff according
to customary procedures.
First, by signing the membership agreement members have agreed to
the following clause:
"ISC and Member may agree to enter into the Advance Security
Notification Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit D, under which
Member shall qualify to receive notifications of known security
vulnerabilities in ISC DHCP up to ten (10) days before ISC releases
such information through the CERT=AE Coordination Center
("CERT/CC")."
In the Advance Security Notification Agreement the
member agrees to:
"Member shall treat any information which it receives from ISC
pursuant to Paragraph 1 of this Notification Agreement as
Confidential Information. Member also shall safeguard such
information using authentication and encryption tools which have
been approved in writing by ISC."
Finally, "ISC may terminate this Membership Agreement or any
Exhibit mutually executed hereto for material breach by Member."
Yes for security-sensitive patches as per the Notification Service
which is designed to help critical infrastructure operators be
part of a carefully controlled disclosure "before the bad guys."
Security-sensitive code, once announced, and all other ISC DHCP code,
is freely available just like always.
In addition,
Non-security notification members have access to the cvs tree which is
the development code for ISC DHCP.
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