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Re: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09: How we have resolved WG last call comments

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Thu, 02 December 2010 17:26 UTC

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On 12/2/2010 6:06 AM, Eliot Lear wrote:
> Lars,
>
>> They put that in their code and all of a sudden realize that on many platforms, they need to ask the user for admin rights in order to bind to that port.
>>
>> They won't be happy.
>>
>> Right?
>
> The only circumstances in which this would happen would be if this were
> user-installed code without administrative privileges.  Not bloody
> likely, these days.

Hmm. Users run apps all the time that aren't "installed"; they're just run.

Joe

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