Re: Evaluation: draft-ietf-netconf-ssh-05.txt to Proposed Standar d [I06-051127-0011]

["Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>]

Hi -

> From: "Andy Bierman" <ietf@andybierman.com>
> To: "Randy Presuhn" <randy_presuhn@mindspring.com>
> Cc: "Netconf (E-mail)" <netconf@ops.ietf.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2006 3:57 PM
> Subject: Re: Evaluation: draft-ietf-netconf-ssh-05.txt to Proposed Standar d [I06-051127-0011]
...
> The current  practice with CLI, HTML, and SMI based network management
> protocols is to use privileged port numbers.  Why is NETCONF different?
...

It isn't a legacy protocol.

But if folks think that using a particular port number will
improve security, or that using a number less that 1024
will simplify implementation or improve interoperability,
I don't care enough about this to keep arguing the point.

Randy


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