The other day me and @gregkh shot down a draft proposal to add a new role in the CVE ecosystem (SADP: "supplier ADP") that would append data to CVEs with details about dependencies and how they are or are not vulnerable to each particular CVE.

Imagine the amount of dependencies that use curl or the Linux kernel etc. These sweet innocent proposal makers thought in the terms of 5-10 dependencies per CVE. Not tens or hundreds of thousands which is far from unthinkable.

@bagder @gregkh where was that proposal circulating?
@msw @gregkh it was presented and discussed during our most recent OSS CNA user group meeting
@bagder @msw @gregkh Ha! They weren't asking for much were they!?
@sjvn @msw @gregkh to be honest, it felt almost a little cute and innocent!
@bagder @sjvn @gregkh that’s been my experience for a lot of these things. Well intentioned ideas, but they don’t withstand contact with the realities of wide-scale reuse.
@msw @bagder @sjvn @gregkh The lack of understanding around open source is one of the biggest threats open source has I suspect