Re: [Last-Call] Last Call: <draft-danyliw-replace-ftp-pointers-03.txt> (Updating References to the IETF FTP Service) to Proposed Standard

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

I am very supportive of turning off the FTP service at ietf.org <http://ietf.org/>.  I support whatever administrative action is needed to make that happen.

Russ


> On Aug 30, 2021, at 10:22 AM, The IESG <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> 
> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the
> following document: - 'Updating References to the IETF FTP Service'
>  <draft-danyliw-replace-ftp-pointers-03.txt> as Proposed Standard
> 
> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final
> comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
> [e-mail] mailing lists by 2021-09-27. Exceptionally, comments may
> be sent to [e-mail] instead. In either case, please retain the beginning
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> Abstract
> 
> 
>   The IETF FTP service running at ftp.ietf.org, ops.ietf.org and
>   ietf.org will be retired.  A number of published RFCs in the IETF and
>   IAB streams include URIs that reference this FTP service.  To ensure
>   that the materials referenced using the IETF FTP service can still be
>   found, this document updates the FTP-based references in these
>   affected documents with HTTPS URIs.