On 2010/02/02 8:47, Ian Hickson wrote:
* Using ports 81/815 instead of 80/443 would be ideal, but IANA said that if we look like HTTP, we must use ports 80/443.
Well, the port space is pretty crowded these days. But IANA is not going to tell the *IETF* that they need the same ports as another protocol in case the IETF decides that it needs different ports. IANA's job description, for the protocol registries, is essentially: Register everything the IETF tells you, the way they tell you.
So for the moment, please assume that if we (as an IETF WG, followed by IETF last call) decide that we need new ports, IANA will try their best to give us new ports. The exact number may be treated as a detail.
Regards, Martin. -- #-# Martin J. Dürst, Professor, Aoyama Gakuin University #-# http://www.sw.it.aoyama.ac.jp mailto:duerst at it.aoyama.ac.jp
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