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Re: NEW DRAFT: Regularizing Port Numbers for SSL.
> From: Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@consensus.com>
>
> I will be sending the final version of this request to the IANA on
> Wednesday, November 12th.
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If there are any questions as to our authority to request such changes,
> these changes have been run by the WG Chair, Win Treese
> <treese@OpenMarket.com>and Jeff Schiller <jis@mit.edu> is the IESG area
> director over the TLS WG. In addition, these requests were run by Netscape,
> Microsoft, the SSL-Talk mailing list and the IETF-TLS working group mailing
> list, and rough consensus was achieved before being sent to you.
>
> If you have any questions, please feel free to give me a call at
> 510/559-1500 or email me at Christopher Allen <ChristopherA@consensus.com>.
I believe it is incorrect to claim that rough consensus has been
achieved on the mailing lists. If this goes forward, I believe it would
be more accurate to state that no consensus was achieved, but that the
request is being made anyway in the interest of expediency.