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

George Neville-Neil <gnn@freebsd.org> Thu, 02 December 2010 15:10 UTC

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On Dec 2, 2010, at 09:21 , Lars Eggert wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 2010-12-2, at 16:06, Eliot Lear wrote:
>>> 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.
> 
> quite likely, actually, at least on some platforms. (Drag & drop installing to /Applications on the Mac, for example.)
> 
> But I guess neither of is will convince the other. Time for other folks to chime in.
> 

As an active maintainer of a system on which this distinction remains (FreeBSD) I can tell you that
there are no plans to change this, no matter what the WG decides to vote.  I think we should think
of this as a de-facto standard at this point, and just let it go.

Best,
George

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