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Re: [tcpm] draft-zimmermann-tcpm-undeployed

Wesley Eddy <wes@mti-systems.com> Tue, 21 October 2014 13:45 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] draft-zimmermann-tcpm-undeployed
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On 10/21/2014 7:47 AM, Zimmermann, Alexander wrote:
> See for example this thread: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg81410.html
> (or http://marc.info/?t=137611379100002&r=1&w=2)
> 
> 	Wes: „There are probably security issues“
> 	Joe: „There are semantics issues to; see draft-touch-tcp-portnames-00 for information“
> 	Bob Braden: „Indeed, TCPMUX is quite historic… it represents a Road Not Taken“
> 
> Another source is: draft-touch-tcpm-sno-02.txt
> 
> If Joe, Wes or Bob think now that we should not obsolete TCPMUX, fine by me.
> I thought we reflect w/ draft-zimmermann-tcpm-undeployed their (the community)
> opinion. 


Looking at:
1) the IETF mailing list threads on it
2) the handful of issues that it presents in the modern day
3) that it isn't "on by default" in widely used code, and there
   don't seem to be many/any strong use cases or advocations for
   it on the web

It seems to me that it should be historic.  There are better ways
of doing the same thing.

-- 
Wes Eddy
MTI Systems

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