On 11/25/20 4:43 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote:
I have a cluster of systems using FTP to mirror I-D's. Just the
.txt and index files. This is trivial to perform with FTP, and
I've been running the same FTP-based mirror script for over a decade.
The cluster I use doesn't support rsync, and likely never will
the issue at stake is technical debt, and specifically who pays for it: ietf llc, or ietf stakeholders.
That's an _extremely_ biased (and I would argue insulting) way of framing the issue. FTP is not technical debt, it's a valuable feature that not everyone happens to utilize (maybe because that's not their preference, maybe because they've never seen the advantages).
Or if you want to put it that way, HTTP/HTML/CSS/JS/etc. has a lot of technical debt too: a tremendous amount of code overhead needed to use it effectively, really bloated clients, dysfunctional user interface when used outside of a very narrow range, high maintenance costs, etc.
