--On Saturday, April 04, 2015 14:11 -0400 Paul Wouters
<paul@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Btw, I agree. ftp is still at times problematic with active
> ports and
> firewall and it offers nothing that http cannot offer.
You mean like the well-known HTTP "TYPE" and "STRU" verbs?
It is likely that neither is an issue for IETF materials as long
as they stay plain text.. at least with the possible exception
of those who complain bitterly about difficulties in displaying
I-Ds and RFC that use CRLF newline conventions, but it would
probably be good to avoid sweeping generalizations like "nothing
that http cannot offer".
john