Probably for the best. If there was a moderately complicated bureaucratic process to be assured of getting one, it wouldn't be Redis or the next SSH that got a

Probably for the best. If there was a moderately complicated bureaucratic process to be assured of getting one, it wouldn't be Redis or the next SSH that got assigned ports. It would be Oracle or HP or someone else incapable of pretending to be a good Internet citizen, who filled in 10,000 of the forms promising that they have 10,000 totally necessary well known enterprise services.