Re: [port-srv-reg] Aliased service names

[Joe Touch <[e-mail]>]

Stuart Cheshire wrote:
> Below is the list of every service I found where more than one name is listed for a port number.
> 
> In most cases I believe these are *not* aliases. They're two different services inadvertently colliding on the port number. The service names are *not* aliases of each other in these cases because they're not the same service.
> 
> In this whole list I only see four names that look like aliases to me:
> 
> "name" looks like an alias for "nameserver".
> 
> "www" and "www-http" are aliases for "http".
> 
> "auth" may be an alias for "ident".
> 
> So it looks like we have a total of THREE service names that have aliases.

Note that we also allowed aliases where the protocol in use can be
determined in-band (as per STUN/TURN), typically where one is legacy and
the other is the newer, backward-compatible version.

We probably want to discourage that in the future.

> --
> 
> List of aliased service names:

For the rest of these, IANA should determine which was actually assigned
and what are just squatters, and update the list accordingly.

Joe