Re: Interest in reviving WG on FTP(maybe ext?)

"William F. Maton Sotomayor" <wmaton@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca> Fri, 10 July 2009 18:07 UTC

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From: "William F. Maton Sotomayor" <wmaton@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca>
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Subject: Re: Interest in reviving WG on FTP(maybe ext?)
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On Fri, 10 Jul 2009, tom.petch wrote:

> In October last, there was a thread on
> "Subject: Followup on IETF72 discussion of FTP protocol extensions and
> updates".
>
> I cannot recall seeing any conclusion to it; may be this time?

Ah, thanks for that pointer.  I was in DUblin and had not realized at the 
time that there were discussions in progress...Alas, that was prior 
getting involved in the issue in the first place.

I don't see one in the archives either.

I think a Bar BoF may be planned for it though?

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> Tom Petch
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "William F. Maton Sotomayor" <wmaton@ryouko.imsb.nrc.ca>
> To: <apps-discuss@ietf.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 01, 2009 9:53 PM
> Subject: Interest in reviving WG on FTP(maybe ext?)
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>>
>> All,
>>
>>   Over the past several months a colleague at a university and
>> myself have revived work on the WU-FTPD daemon.  Through researching the
>> various RFCs and such, it's become apparent that there are a small number
>> of drafts as well as a potential number of others that could significantly
>> contribute to the protocol.  (So my voyage has gone from operator,
>> developer and implementor to protocol spec.)  But, ftpext wound-up and it
>> seems there's no specific venue to flesh these out amongst like-minded
>> FTP people.
>>
>>   I suppose what I'm looking for from the Apps Area folk is to test
>> the waters on establishing a BoF (if I have read the Apps website
>> correctly) that will lead to establishing some kind of group that will
>> further the possible work remaining or possibly poending to be done, or
>> not.  Discussions amongst a couple of authors of long-expired drafts seem
>> to favour some kind of venue.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> wfms
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