[dfrage]

People who follow his blog will be familiar with at least some of the following:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/software.html

Some distance down the list is reposurgeon, which has been used to convert Gnu Emacs and many smaller/younger repositories to git, and is in the process of converting GCC: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?tag=reposurgeon

Not directly software: http://www.catb.org/~esr/projects.html

[cromulent]

I'm not trying to be argumentative, but I'm just curious - what on that list is "a critical Internet service or library"?

[dfrage]

Second item from the top:

> gpsd

> gpsd is a service daemon that monitors a GPS attached to a serial or USB port, decodes the position/velocity/time information it sends, and republishes in a simple uniform format on an IANA-designated TCP/IP port. This enables multiple applications to read from a GPS without contention. The distribution also provides C and Python libraries to encapsulate the client side of talking with gpsd.

From the core team page on the following project (https://ntpsec.org/core-team.html), with at least one falsifiable claim:

> Eric S. Raymond has been the technical lead of GPSD, a close peer project of NTP and one of its principal time sources, since 2004. GPSD has billions of deployments in Android smartphones world wide and is a mission-critical component in most of the world’s drones and driverless cars and robot submarines.

The top item, where he's also the technical lead:

> NTPsec

> A stripped down-security-hardened and generally improved version of the NTP reference code. Features code bulk reduced by a factor of 4, better monitoring and diagnostic tools, and Network Time Security.

Aspires to become one, but it's early in the process to see if it'll succeed.

Those are projects I've vaguely followed over the years. Reading down the list, this claims to be one, and the claim is partially falsifiable:

> giflib

> The ubiquitous service library for rendering GIFs. I handed off the project 1994 to avoid problems with the U.S. patent system, but accepted back the lead in 2012. This code had the odd effect of making me virtually omnipresent; it seems nobody has ever bothered to write a replacement, and it's now ubiquitous in web browsers, cellphones and gaming consoles. In a nicely ironic touch, it earned me an appearance in the credits of the Microsoft XBox.

[KirinDave]

But none of these are within the implicit scope of "Internet Load Bearing Software" though, are they? We're aware of his prior involvement with ILBS, but he hasn't been sharp in that game for a long time now.

[dfrage]

NTPsec aspires to be "Internet Load Bearing Software".