Ftp-WG: status of rfc 2228

    Date:        Mon, 3 Nov 2003 22:44:04 -0500
    From:        [email protected]
    Message-ID:  <[email protected]>

  | i was wondering if anyone knew which ftp implementations currently
  | support the proposed security extensions.

Sorry, no reply from me on that part, perhaps someone else might
know of some.

  | and finally, are there any thoughts on combining the control connection
  | and data connection?

No, no thoughts, and no chance.   That would require revising FTP
until it was close enough identical to HTTP.   We already have HTTP,
we don't need a variation of it running on a different port and called
FTP.   If the dual connection part of FTP means that problems are caused
that limit where FTP is permitted, then perhaps FTP will eventually die
out.   That certainly has not happened yet.

kre