Re: documenting rsync, or, what are we here for anyway? (was: Re: what is rsync)

["Salz, Rich" <rsalz=40akamai.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note that I am *not* commenting on the proposal to remove FTP.  Joe’s note just brought up some questions.

 

• FWIW, although that may be true for this use case, it’s useful to keep in mind that FTP encodes a large body of experience

 

I thought FTP stopped evolving in like 2005 with RFC 4217, about how to use TLS.  Am I missing something?

 

• that, in some ways, HTTP continues to try to evolve to replicate (like letting IP be the multiplexing unit and automatically avoiding HOL blocking).

 

Does FTP do multiplexing?  How?  Which RFC?

 

• FTP isn’t quaint in that regard. It remains the gold standard in many ways and has many lessons still to offer.

 

Such as?