In article <2e2afd2e-7eaf-5758-ece6-c92df2608dbe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> you write: >On 11/25/20 3:54 PM, John Levine wrote: > >> I don't care what OS you're running, but I do observe that rsync has >> been widely available for well over 20 years. Anything too old to run >> rsync strikes me as a corner case of a corner case. > >I don't get this argument. You have a tool that you find useful, >great! That's not an excuse to disrupt use of a tool that other people >find useful. To point out the obvious, the IETF's staff and financial resources are not infinite. Based on Roman's numbers, we seem to be talking about a dozen FTP users and at least thousands if not tens of thousands of rsync and https users. I find arguments that we should ignore the numbers because a few individuals think they might be inconvenienced unpersuasive. The previous message about technical debt summed up the issue pretty well.
