On 23/06/14 00:02, Christian Huitema wrote: > This may be the current practice, but is it something that we want to keep > or encourage? "Just starting TLS" is clearly simpler and more robust than > first going through a "STARTTLS" negotiation. I think it would make perfect > sense to allocate TLS only ports for services that we want to transition to > a "default TLS" posture. RFC 6335 explains why IANA should preserve the > port-numbers resource, and we could do that by phasing out usage of the > clear-text only port, and then removing its registration.
That seems like a good strategic approach to me, where we can get it agreed. I suspect its not for this WG though, but yeah, maybe sometime in the not-too-distant we can deprecate some clear-text ports. (I wonder which would be the first where that is practical?) S. _______________________________________________ Uta mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/uta
