On 5/7/2020 12:35 PM, John Levine wrote:
For once I agree with Keith. If the IESG wants to deprecate ports assigned to dead protocols, that's fine, but it should do them as a group, not via Consensus Water Torture.
I think this is the right way to think about it. We should get consensus on a policy rather than discussing each and every port individually. "Ports assigned to historic protocols will be marked historic without requiring additional community consultation" seems like a good policy to me.
It's worth noting that there has already been some groundwork done here; and although community feedback indicates a need for changes to its contents, draft-kuehlewind-system-ports seems like a good place to add this general policy (along with the other changes that community feedback has indicated). It's also worth noting that this document does exactly what John proposes: it proposes to mark a group of ports (including 109) as Historic.
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