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Different era, when you could accomplish wide-ranging changes just by sending an email. These days a committee would have to be appointed.
by chiph 10y ago
Different era, when you could accomplish wide-ranging changes just by sending an email. These days a committee would have to be appointed.
- user5994461 10y agoIt's still the same, send emails to the committee members. There are just more people in copy :D
- coldtea 10y agoYeah, and good luck if you're not Google or similarly sized.
- V99 10y agoI got a port assigned for our startup 2 years ago with one email and one follow-up response to a couple questions. It's really not that hard. (https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=9345 https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...)
- Analemma_ 10y agoThe issue isn't the committees - as V99 said, IANA will assign you a port without too much hassle if you just ask. The real issue is stupid middleware boxes and overzealous cargo-cult-security sysadmins who block every port except 22, 80 and 443. Getting new applications with new ports to work on the real Internet is rarely worth the hassle, which is why now we have to tunnel every new protocol over HTTP.