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

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Thu, 02 December 2010 14:04 UTC

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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.

Eliot

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