On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 02:09:47PM -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip <pbaker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote a message of 163 lines which said: > The Internet has a signalling layer, the DNS. Applications should > use it. The SRV record provides an infinitely extensible mechanism > for advertising ports. I agree here but this means we should keep at least one well-known port, 53. > IANA should be told to close the well known ports > registry. Applications should use DNS SRV records for service > location. I agree with that rule for the *future* protocols. But it does not help with current (and widely deployed) protocols. So, asking IANA to refuse new registrations in the well-known ports registry is one thing, shutting down the registry is another. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf