I received a couple of emails from people which have not only corrected a mistake or two in ftp-mfxx, but have also given me the necessary nudge to try and get this out as an RFC. I’ve updated the draft (available in publications) and submitted it to be published on internet-drafts… once there, I will try again to get the RFC Editor to publish it as a RFC.
Here is the announcement on the I-D list.
I have just sent an email to the RFCEditor to request that draft-somers-ftp-mfxx-03 be published as an Experimental RFC. I would have hoped it would have gone down the standard track path but, alas, the IETF Application Area ADs have shown little interest. (C’est la vie).Here is the response I got from the RFC Editor:
The RFC Editor is more than a little mystified by the utility of these
extensions.
Why would an FTP client WANT to modify the file meta data at the
server, and even more, why would a server ALLOW a client to do
so!!?? I sure as heck would not want MY FTP server to implement
these commands!
I’ll leave it up to your imaginations as to what I think of this slap-in-the-face.
I tweaked the latest draft and its now published as an internet-draft; here’s the announcement.I have now asked the IETF Application Area ADs to sponsor this for publicaton as a Stabndards Track RFC…. if they say no I’ll just ask the RFC Editor to pubish it as an Experimental RFC (since people have already gone and implemented it!)