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

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Mon, 11 July 2011 02:58 UTC

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>    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.

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.

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