----- Original Message ----- From: "John Levine" <johnl@xxxxxxxxx> To: <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 7:42 PM > >> The majority of the current FTP traffic appears to be from mirror > >> sites that would be better served using rsync. > > >the service for RFCs either. FTP is antiquated. In as much as we are > >encouraging everyone to encrypt everything, most FTP clients and servers > >lack that support. > > Since it's anonymous retrieval of public information, I suppose a bad > guy could do traffic analysis, but if it's mostly mirrors, they'll be > fetching everything so it won't reveal much. > > The main problem with turning FTP off is that stuff will mysteriously > stop working. I wonder if it'd be possible to look at the FTP logs > and see if there are people we recognize, and if so contact them and > ask how hard it would be for them to use rsync instead, to limit the > mysteries. At least with the Microsoft software that I use, FTP preserves the date of the file so that I can see at once how old a document is; HTTP rewrites the date to be today, losing that information. For I-Ds, not really an issue (but for RFC, that would be a serious impairment). Tom Petch > > R's, > John > >