Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp> Tue, 10 November 2020 10:35 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
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Sorry to have sent unedited mail.

Roman Danyliw wrote:

 > reducing the operational complexity of the overall IETF infrastructure

The best thing to do to reduce our operational effort is
to do nothing.

The second best thing is some clever and lazy officer just
declare to stop the service.

Are there any?

> In consultation with the Tools team (Robert, Glen, Henrik, Russ, and
> Alexey), Communications team (Greg), affected SDO liaisons, IAB
> Chair, and LLC ED, a proposed retirement plan was developed and is
> available at:

Wow! I'm impressed that there are so many hardworking guys.

						Masataka Ohta