On Aug 19, 2004, at 8:04 PM, Marta Edie asked:

> But there is one question I have: who gives the numbers to these 
> ports? iTunes is 3689, Printer sharing 631 and 515, remote log-in 22 
> etc-. Why these  wild numbers without any , at least to me, reason?

There's a group called IANA (Internet Assigned Number Authority) that 
does it.

<http://www.iana.net/>



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