I would like to chime in on this aspect of John's note...
I'd also suggest that those who don't like FTP and think we
should do no more work on it should not be complaining about
this draft, or others, but should be writing an I-D explaining
their case. If they can get enough consensus to get that
explanation published as a BCP or standards-track document
moving FTP to Historic, so be it (although I'd be surprised).
If not and their arguments are well-reasoned and documented, I
assume that the ISE would be as welcoming to their contribution
as he would be to well-written protocol descriptions of existing
practices or strongly-motivated proposals.
As a new IAB member, I'm becoming disturbed about the number of things that
I'm tripping over that "everyone knows", but we haven't written down yet.
The list of reasons we need to punt FTP seems to be one of those things that
we should be capturing as part of our institutional memory.
I would be willing to support a document like this in the IAB stream, if
that were appropriate, but even if it's not, I think such a document would
be a classic example of the reason we need, and have, an Independent Stream.
It should find a home.
Thanks,
Spencer
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