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Re: Last Call: RFC 6346 successful: moving to Proposed Standard

2014-12-15 18:53:39

On Dec 13, 2014, at 6:27 PM, Ted Lemon <Ted(_dot_)Lemon(_at_)nominum(_dot_)com> 
wrote:

On Dec 13, 2014, at 3:09 PM, Christian Huitema 
<huitema(_at_)microsoft(_dot_)com> wrote:
But the applications have no official way to learn the range. 

Isn't that what PCP is for?   You don't need to know the range: you just need 
a port (or range of ports) allocated.

PCP can't provide the entire range of allocatable ports.  Knowing the entire 
range isn't useful, anyway -- even if port "X" was available a few minutes ago, 
it might not be available now because some other host (in the same home) is now 
using that port.

-d



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