Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Thu, 03 December 2020 17:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
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From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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On 12/3/20 12:49 PM, Adam Roach wrote:

> For what it's worth, I think we're already in the second of these 
> scenarios. I went looking for publicly visible information about the 
> FTP server on the IETF web site, and cannot find it (aside from a 
> single mention that the server *exists* without actually giving its 
> name or address).

In general, the IETF web site is appallingly bad at helping people find 
the information they need, so there's nothing exceptional about the lack 
of FTP server information.

Keith