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Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Wed, 18 November 2020 12:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
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Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote on 17/11/2020 23:11:
> As others have said, most of the arguments on this are pretty weak on
> both the "pro" and "anti" side.

^^^ this

In any event, the figures show clearly that ftp usage has declined to 
the point that it's very much a minority thing these days.  Even if the 
IETF continues to provide ftp access for the time being, this decline is 
continuing, so from a consumer point of view, the practical approach 
would be to start thinking about migrating scripts away from it.

Nick

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