Re: [tsvwg] [port-srv-reg] draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-02

[Fernando Gont <fernando at gont.com.ar>]

Joe Touch wrote:

>>> which will cause problems when ports in that range
>>> are allocated and you're already running a service on it.
>>>
>>> It's not clean at all, and should be avoided, IMO.
>> Is this one of those "let's ignore the facts" speeches?
> 
> It's "let's fix the end with the bug, rather than create a new bug to be
> dealt with later" speech.

I'd argue that for client systems, reducing the port number space used
for outgoing connections (i.e. ~64K vs ~15K) is more likely to introduce
problems.

Also, in retrospective, with the "registered ports" thing you're wasting
most of the port number space when you will probably use... what? a
maximum of 10 or 20 ports of those 50K ports?

Thanks,
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Fernando Gont
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