On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 19:21 -0500, David Shaw wrote:
> No.  You should have a document specifying what the port actually is  
> and the protocol that is used on the port before you claim it.  There  
> is a spec for 11371.  You need a spec for 11370.

I was aware of that process :-)


> Also, isn't the port changeable on a per-peer basis in SKS?  If so,  
> there is no point in registering the port at all, as setting up a new  
> peer is a manual operation.

Well but this is also the case with the 11371 port, and basically with
most other protocols, too, isn't it?


>   A SKS instance doesn't need to know a  
> well-known port to become a peer.

Well it was just an idea, when I saw that probably most keyservers
sticked with the default (11370) and this was still unassigned.

I didn't intend to step on someones feet :)

btw: I was not about to register a port number in the well-known
range ;)


Best wishes,
-- 
Christoph Anton Mitterer
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

christoph.anton.mitte...@physik.uni-muenchen.de
m...@christoph.anton.mitterer.name

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