ISC is a nonprofit corporation whose funding comes from donations and the membership fees of those with an interest in the future of BIND and ISC DHCP. The ability of ISC to maintain this software and take active involvement in furthering the core Internet protocols they implement is directly dependent on community subsidy and participation.
Everyone benefits from direct relationships between the users of DHCP and ISC. Feedback from Forum members helps set product direction and feature priorities. It also helps ISC staff drive standards and create Best Practices documents. Members benefit in a number of ways. Click here for a complete list of membership benefits by level. For a customized quotation, please complete a membership application.
Benefits to members include:
- Early Security vulnerability notice & patch release to enable you to be ahead of public announcement & release
- 3rd line support intended to assist your team with integration issues and complicated users issues
- Access to the source tree for the software to allow you to determine how pre-released changes might affect your releases
- Priority bug fixes and viewable queue to monitor progress
- Direct access to the developers on a priority basis to discuss strategy and assist in deployment planning
- Direct input to further release planning
