BSDCan 2025 Trip Report – Mark Johnston
Mark Johnston attended the BSDCan 2025 conference in Ottawa, sponsored by the FreeBSD Foundation. The event included a developer summit and discussions on various topics, including a new policy regarding the use of LLM-based programming tools in the FreeBSD project. Notably, Rick Miller from Verisign presented on the role of FreeBSD in enhancing Internet DNS security.
- ▪The BSDCan 2025 conference took place in Ottawa with a developer summit followed by the main conference.
- ▪A new policy was introduced that forbids incorporating LLM-generated code into the FreeBSD project to maintain licensing integrity.
- ▪Rick Miller from Verisign discussed using FreeBSD as part of a defense-in-depth strategy for Internet DNS infrastructure.
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BSDCan 2025 Trip Report – Mark Johnston July 11, 2025 The FreeBSD Foundation kindly sponsored my trip to Ottawa for the BSDCan 2025 conference and FreeBSD developer summit. We had the usual two-day developer summit on June 11th and 12th, followed by the conference proper on the 13th and 14th. Per my usual routine, I took the train from Toronto to Ottawa to attend BSDcan, this time with the wrinkle of bringing my ARM Morello desktop along for use in Brooks Davis’ talk on CHERI and upstreaming support for it to FreeBSD. Ed Maste kindly picked it up and drove it for me, which made my trip to Ottawa much easier; on the way back I had to lug it along on the train in an oversized luggage case.
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