Re: Retirement of the IETF FTP service

[Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am immensely saddened by this decision, for multiple reasons. But the 
saddest part is the idea that it's too expensive to run such a service.  
It used to be the case that you could stand up an FTP server and run it 
for years with scarcely a thought because it would consume very little 
in the way of bandwidth, CPU time, or human resources and present a 
minimal risk to the hardware and network hosting it.   These days, 
rightly or wrongly, people believe that to not be the case.

And I submit that if this is true, or even if it's mistakenly believed, 
we have all failed in making the Internet work well.

Keith