Re: port registration (was: Re: [VCARDDAV] Lars DISCUSS on draft-ietf-vcarddav-carddav)

[Alexey Melnikov <alexey.melnikov at isode.com>]

Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> The revised procedures in draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports might have an
> interesting impact on AppsArea technologies, since we have registered a
> fair number of ports, DNS SRV records, etc. Has anyone here thought much
> about the potential impact?
>   
Peter, I am going to be the sponsoring AD for this document and going to 
be tracking registry population after that.
This is not to say that I wouldn't need any help, or that I really know 
what the impact going to be ;-).
> /psa
>
> - -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [VCARDDAV] Lars DISCUSS on draft-ietf-vcarddav-carddav
> Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:04:47 -0400
> From: Cyrus Daboo <cyrus at daboo.name>
> To: Simon Perreault <simon.perreault at viagenie.ca>, vcarddav at ietf.org
> References: <20091019114100.A27AD3A6862 at core3.amsl.com>
> <4AE09897.3030208 at isode.com> <4AE0B2EA.9020105 at viagenie.ca>
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> - --On October 22, 2009 3:30:50 PM -0400 Simon Perreault
> <simon.perreault at viagenie.ca> wrote:
>   
> > > 1). Register the new service names as aliases for ports 80/443
> > > 2). Register 2 new port numbers
> > > 3). Don't do any change in this area, wait for
> > > draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports to get published.
> > >       
> > 3 is the way to go.
> >
> > Naive suggestion: I think IANA will merge its port-numbers with Stuart
> > Cheshire's list once draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports is published. Why not
> > add the SRV in that list until then?
> >     
> SRVs are scattered around all over the place. Stuart's list is one place,
> several RFCs also define some. At this point it would only confuse matters
> to have it in two places. The authors of iana-ports are fully aware that
> they need to go through RFCs and Stuarts data to pre-populate the new
> registry.
>
> - --
> Cyrus Daboo