Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00

Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> Tue, 23 July 2013 01:10 UTC

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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 10:05:08 +1000
From: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
To: "denis bider (Bitvise)" <ietf-ssh3@denisbider.com>
cc: Peter Gutmann <pgut001@cs.auckland.ac.nz>, S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>, ietf-ssh@NetBSD.org
Subject: Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00
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On Fri, 12 Jul 2013, denis bider (Bitvise) wrote:

> If OpenSSH chooses to be stuck in the past and implement an older version of
> the protocol known as SFTP version 3, then the OpenSSH project can document
> the version they implement, but based on one implementation, that doesn't need
> to be an internet standard.

I think "the version of sftp that you can actually use on the Internet" would
make a fine informational RFC.

-d