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RE: Guidance needed on well known ports

>    1. Are well known ports archaic?  If so, can we request that the
IANA
>       do away with the distinction?

I don't know whether I would use the word "archaic", but the distinction
between < 1024 and >= 1024 is certainly Unix-specific. In the Windows
operating systems, the port range 1-1023 is not special. Some Windows OS
services use low port numbers, but not all. UPNP, for example, uses
ports 1900 and 2500; the RPC applications use dynamic port numbers.


>    2. If they are not archaic, under what circumstances should they be
>       allocated?

I have no problem with the current system.

-- Christian Huitema



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