On 5/7/20 10:19 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy 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
Since there are very many Historic protocols with port assignments, I
propose that IESG be authorized to declare a port assignment Historic
without soliciting community input, if the latest version of the
protocol specification has already been (re)classified Historic by an
IETF Consensus action - (unless the document declaring the specification
Historic specifies another disposition for the port). That way we
don't have to have a separate discussion for every such protocol.
However, IMO, ports declared Historic should not be subject to immediate
reassignment for other purposes. Perhaps after 10 years?
Keith
