On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:15:34 -0600
"Spencer Dawkins" <sdawkins(_at_)cynetanetworks(_dot_)com> wrote:
It might be interesting for IAB to think about the estimated half-life
of well-known port numbers in the Internet architecture, since we've
been seeing
It might be interesting to find a way to make port numbers so
meaningless that you either have to let them all through or none of them
through (which obviously isn't useful).
Perhaps the notion of a well known port is a concept whose time has
passed. At least for connection oriented protocols, doing away with
well known ports might have some good properties for some basic
authentication/cookie mechanism as well.
Or we could just let HTTP become the transport layer until blocking is
done within the content of those messages, but we can just keep building
transports on top until some MTU is reached. :-)
John