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Re: not a reason, Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

John Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Tue, 17 November 2020 23:39 UTC

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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: not a reason, Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
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In article <41d6f9eb-20a7-4547-859e-2eef5aedd3b2@network-heretics.com> you write:
>Last-Modified (at least) should be regarded as absolutely essential.  
>Again, these dates are sometimes important for patent litigation purposes.

We have a process to respond to requests for document authentication
and I can assure you it does not involve FTP at all, nor does it
depend on any dates in HTTP headers.

You can learn all about it here:

https://ietf.org/about/administration/legal-request-procedures/

R's,
John

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