RE: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Roman Danyliw <rdd@cert.org> Thu, 26 November 2020 03:10 UTC

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From: Roman Danyliw <rdd@cert.org>
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>, "ietf@ietf.org" <ietf@ietf.org>
Subject: RE: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
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Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2020 03:09:57 +0000
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Hi Lyndon!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ietf <ietf-bounces@ietf.org> On Behalf Of Lyndon Nerenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2020 1:03 PM
> To: ietf@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

[snip]

> I have a cluster of systems using FTP to mirror I-D's.  Just the .txt and index
> files.  This is trivial to perform with FTP, and I've been running the same FTP-
> based mirror script for over a decade.
> The cluster I use doesn't support rsync, and likely never will, yet without that
> it's still more than functional enough to work as a distributed desktop
> environment.

To have as a backup, there is also ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/internet-drafts against which I-Ds can be mirrored.

Roman