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Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service

Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Wed, 18 November 2020 14:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: Call for Community Feedback: Retiring IETF FTP Service
To: Lou Berger <lberger@labn.net>, Benjamin Kaduk <kaduk@mit.edu>
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From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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On 11/18/20 9:21 AM, Lou Berger wrote:

> How about: the FTP Service will be discontinued when FTP (RFC959) is 
> moved to Historic status.
>
One of the problems I have in general with reclassifying things as 
Historic is that this can lead to deprecation of services that are still 
quite useful, without the implications of such deprecation even being 
discussed, and without providing any advice about how to transition.

"Historic" may be the wrong way of describing the situation. More 
accurately, a protocol may change from mainstream use - where it's the 
widely accepted way of doing some particular thing - to occasional or 
fringe use, where it's still useful in corner cases even though it's no 
longer the widely accepted way of doing that thing.

Keith

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