On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 04:35:58PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2014/07/15 17:17, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > > > > Well it depends what policy we want. Looking at the file most entries > > > > have both even if only one protocol is effectively in use. > > > > > > Looking at the file though, most of those are older entries - I think > > > > Yes. The reason is this: > > " > > # Note that it is presently the policy of IANA to assign a single well-known > > # port number for both TCP and UDP; hence, most entries here have two > > entries > > # even if the protocol doesn't support UDP operations. > > " > > > > > new entries should be specific, and where we have knowledge of the > > > protocols we should remove silly old ones. BGP, Gopher, HTTP, POP, > > > and IMAP over UDP look like good candidates for example.. > > > > I am all in favor of cleaning this file and removing useless entries. > > But be careful, this is not a user-editable file anymore, > > It isn't? Oh dear...
No. That is why we can relax the rules a *little*. -- Antoine
