Re: Tombstone README for FTP service

Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> Thu, 28 April 2022 14:08 UTC

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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 16:07:18 +0200
From: Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr>
To: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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Subject: Re: Tombstone README for FTP service
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 09:58:00AM -0400,
 Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> wrote 
 a message of 8 lines which said:

> It should say that the IETF shamefully abandoned its own protocol,
> despite it being valuable and providing features that don't exist in
> any of the supposed protocols IETF replaced it with.

Listing of remote files in a (may be) structured format? (It would be
a nice addition to HTTP; I'm sure there is at least a draft with such
an extension.) Difficulty with firewalls? Separation of signaling and
retrieval? (This is less important with HTTP/2 an 3 streams.)