Re: [ftpext] I-D Action: draft-ietf-ftpext2-ftp64-01.txt

Mykyta Yevstifeyev <evnikita2@gmail.com> Mon, 11 July 2011 03:48 UTC

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11.07.2011 5:58, John C Klensin wrote:
>>     The File transfer protocol, which is defined by the RFC
>> 959, has a long history, but still being widely used.  The
>> original version of FTP specification defines IPv4 version
>> of FTP.
> This is obviously not a big deal --I'll have more real comments
> on the draft later-- but the above statement from the abstract
> is unquestionably false.
+1
>
> The original version of the FTP specification was published in
> April 1971 in RFC 114, long before IPv4 was even imagined.  It
> defined the NCP version of FTP for the ARPANET.
Actually this is true.  The first document which specified FTP as we 
currently know it was RFC 354, though.  But the concept was set in RFC 114.

Mykyta
>
>    -- john
>      (Aka cranky old guy who was somewhat involved in the
> original design and who has been using FTP since 1971)
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