On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Philip Prindeville
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Well, that's wrong. Going to IANA, I see:
>
> http://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xml
>
>  <record>
>    <name>urd</name>
>    <protocol>tcp</protocol>
>    <description>URL Rendesvous Directory for SSM</description>
>    <number>465</number>
>  </record>
>
> 465 has *never* been allocated to SMTP.  Period.
>
> It was hijacked.
>

Hijacked is pretty strong wording - it was officially proposed,
conditionally accepted, then later dropped:

http://www.imc.org/ietf-apps-tls/mail-archive/msg00204.html

I guess that's the way committees roll...

--
   Les Mikesell
     [email protected]
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