On Sat, 4 Apr 2015, David Farmer wrote:
However, this is irrelevant to the announcement and request for community
comment. I think it is appropriate to retire support for FTP as announced.
There are newer more appropriate options supported and in dominant use, http
and rsync.
Btw, I agree. ftp is still at times problematic with active ports and
firewall and it offers nothing that http cannot offer.
Paul