My memory may be flawed here but I vaguely remember there being a minor controversy over SSH being awarded port 22 instead of a competing protocol/program calle

My memory may be flawed here but I vaguely remember there being a minor controversy over SSH being awarded port 22 instead of a competing protocol/program called “stelnet”. It was a similar solution to SSH but only “replaced” telnet, not FTP. Back then there were “strong feelings about” rsh versus telnet, with SSH actually being modeled more after rsh/rcp/rlogin. Anyway at best this is probably just more internet protocol trivia but I do wonder if anybody can confirm I am remembering this right?