Are we sure that this is not going to break any operational systems running legacy applications? Obsoleting it is fine, but isn’t there a risk that Historic will put the port up for reuse and potentially cause a clash in such networks? Is there a reason to do this beyond housekeeping? - Stewart > On 7 May 2020, at 15:19, Murray S. Kucherawy <superuser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Colleagues, > > 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.. > > -MSK, ART AD
