[Openswan Users] Openswan interop page?

[Michael Richardson]

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    >> Yes, it would be a good idea.  It should be a wiki, ideally.

    Paul> I personally don't like wiki's. I believe the planned set of
    Paul> QuickStarts would have everything we need, since currently
    Paul> those are planned with showing the configuration on both

  First, the documentation doesn't always help everyone at all times.
  If this were 2000, then I'd agree that wiki's are too weird for most
people. It now being 2004, I find them to be a very useful addition to 
a project. 

    >> Paul, is that possible on the current openswan.org host?

    Paul> Possible, but I'm hesistant to be hosting something where
    Paul> anyone can add or remove anything. Whether it are spammers,
    Paul> false reports or honest mistakes.

  Wiki's can have strong authentication, or very weak. 
  They also support revision control, and one can roll back changes that
are inappropriate.

  I've never set one up, so perhaps I should just do that here.

    Paul> I also got the impression that even with dedicated projects,
    Paul> people don't want to invest in learning how to use a wiki. So

  That's true, but less and less so due to blogs - most blogs are just
wiki's in disguise, with much more limited access. Political parties are
using them with people who can't manage to use hotmail, let alone
outlook :-)

    Paul> for this one person who got Vendor XYZ to work with freeswan,
    Paul> he might mail the list with his information, but he won't try
    Paul> and use the wiki.

  If he doesn't report, he doesn't report.
  What I find is that when I google for things on the network, I find
hundreds of obsolete reports that don't work anymore. The wiki permits
them to be updated.

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