On Thu, Apr 28, 2022 at 09:58:00AM -0400, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 8 lines which said: > It should say that the IETF shamefully abandoned its own protocol, > despite it being valuable and providing features that don't exist in > any of the supposed protocols IETF replaced it with. Listing of remote files in a (may be) structured format? (It would be a nice addition to HTTP; I'm sure there is at least a draft with such an extension.) Difficulty with firewalls? Separation of signaling and retrieval? (This is less important with HTTP/2 an 3 streams.)