On 12/2/20 12:00 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:
FTPS has lost out to SFTP in the market. There is no advantage to continuing to support a rival and there is a considerable cost. The interests of the community would be best served by focusing all development on SSH/SFTP and declaring Telnet and FTP HISTORIC. Doing that might help focus attention on the fact SFTP doesn't have an RFC and encourage moves to complete that work.
I'm not sure that there is one "the" market. While I like SFTP
and personally use it more often that I do FTP, my sense is that
each has established itself in different communities. FTP use is
still widespread. For instance, broadcast TV equipment uses FTP
3rd party transfer capability to transfer large media files from
video archives to video playout servers for airing.
(Of course part of FTP's acceptance might be due to FTP not requiring encryption. I can't imagine that the broadcast TV industry would switch to SFTP because it would be so much slower.)
Keith
