Hi Lloyd,
But this doesn’t change my opinion that it should be marked as historic. I’m not suggesting that you can’t use it (e.g., in those rare circumstances where you cannot run something more secure), or that implementations need to be deleted, or new implementations
cannot be written.
All I am saying is that my understanding is that best practice, at least for the last 10 years or so, has been to use ssh instead of telnet, and hence marking telnet as historic
helps signal that to the wider world (particularly if there is some text that indicates why it has been marked as historic).
Does this really matter? Probably not, since I think that world + dog already knows this anyway. In terms of updating document status, it feels that often IETF is the last one
to the party …
Regards,
Rob
From: Lloyd W <lloyd.wood=40yahoo.com@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, 1 August 2024 at 21:50
To: Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx>, Rob Wilton (rwilton) <rwilton@xxxxxxxxx>, Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ietf@xxxxxxxx Discussion <ietf@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: TELNET to HISTORIC Re: FTP
nixed? it's installed, and supported. you enable it with a checkbox.
On 11 Jul 2024, at 13:10, Phillip Hallam-Baker <phill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Windows nixed their TELNET client a decade ago
