draft-somers-ftp-mfxx-03 as an Experimental RFC?
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.