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Re: Assigning ports

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 15 September 2011 21:38 UTC

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Hi, Tom,

On 9/15/2011 1:25 AM, t.petch wrote:
> Now that RFC6335 has been published, the IANA page on how to get a port assigned
> has been updated (take a good book if you want to access it:-( but the text
> there leaves me confused.
>
> It says
> "System Ports are assigned by IETF process for standards-track protocols, as per
> [RFC1340]"
> which, RFC1340 being ' Assigned Numbers. J. Reynolds, J. Postel. July 1992'
> confuses me.

It's a reference to the original definition of System Ports.

> Should this instead refer to RFC6335 or RFC5226? (I suspect that
> the former is the better reference even if to make sense of it you must access
> the latter).

It might be useful to cite all three.

> It also says
> "Service names are assigned on a first-come, first-served process, as
> documented in [RFC952]"
> which, RFC952 being ' DoD Internet host table specification. K. Harrenstien,
> M.K.
>       Stahl, E.J. Feinler. October 1985. '
> also confuses me.   Should this instead refer to RFC6335 or RFC5226?

Yes - probably both there as well.

I'll forward this to IANA for update.

Joe

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