Ah, that is unfortunate. I wish that the community had done something then,
if it had been foreseen.
-=R
On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Bruce Perens <bruce@perens.com> wrote:
> On 11/15/2013 08:02 AM, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
>
>
> I'm saying that your whole problem with intermediaries in clear stems
> directly from your attempts to push a new different protocol on a port
> already used for something else (ie trying to enter through the back-door
> like a juvenile delinquent because the guard on the main entry may object,
> ensuring that he will consider you a suspicious character)
>
>
> Agreed.
>
> Paul Vixie sent me this:
>
> default=closed firewalls were known about fairly early on. this
> consequence was foreseeable.
>
> "I don't know what apps and protocols humanity will speak 50 years from
> now, but we will call it the Internet, and it will run over TCP port 80."
>
>