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Is the Dropbox protocol open and has an RFC? If not I think IANA should revise their practices to only allow registration of ports for protocols that do.
by klon 17y ago
Is the Dropbox protocol open and has an RFC? If not I think IANA should revise their practices to only allow registration of ports for protocols that do.
- stingraycharles 17y agoWhy is that ? IANA's task is to coordinate the assignment of, among others, port numbers, not to promote free / open software.
- nailer 17y agoYes, but the post you're replying to is discussing open protocols, not free software or OSS.
- eli 17y agoOK, but making sure two people don't try to use the same port for different things doesn't have much to do with making sure whatever they're doing is documented. Surely, you wouldn't want to create a new service that defaults to a port already in common use, but unlisted because the protocol didn't meet someone's definition of open.