On 7 May 2020, at 7:19, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote:
The IESG has received a request to update the IANA "Service Name and
Transport Protocol Port Number" registry to mark port 109 (POP2) as
"Historic". The specific changes proposed are as follows:
1) Change the registration's Description field to read "Post Office
Protocol - Version 2 (Historic)"
2) Change the Assignee to IESG (with link as shown for SMTP on port
25, for
example)
3) Change the Contact to IETF Chair (also with link as shown for SMTP,
for
example)
4) Change the Assignment Notes to read "Originally registered by Joyce
K.
Reynolds in RFC 937 (HIstoric)", with link preserved from the current
Assignee/Contact column.
The community is invited to provide comments on this change. We would
like
to move forward on or after May 31st, so if you have feedback to
provide,
please do so by then.
Of what value to the Internet, or even to the IETF, is moving forward on
this request? Why is POP2 any different than the zillion of other
abandoned protocols in the IANA port registry?
--Paul Hoffman
