Ftp-WG: mdtm and mlsd commands

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:01:18PM +0000, Alun Jones wrote:
> If it's going to be done, it needs to be more than just modification time
> that gets altered - creation time might be a good one to work on, too.  Are
> there any other facts that should be modified by a new command?  Perhaps
> protections, though I _know_ that one's going to be a mess.

Anybody remembering draft-somers-ftp-mfxx-00.txt? It's no longer
in the IETF drafts directory (it expired about one year ago), but
still available from

  http://www.trevezel.com/downloads/draft-somers-ftp-mfxx-00.txt

and IMHO it's in pretty good shape, almost ready for the IESG.

A copy-paste from the abstract:

   This document defines extensions to the FTP specification STD9,
   RFC959, "FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL (FTP)".  These extensions provide the
   ability for a FTP Client to modify the last modification time, the
   creation time, or multiple facts (last modification time, creation
   time, operating system permissions, etc.) of a file in the server-FTP
   process NVFS.  These extensions are implemented by three new optional
   commands: "MFMT" (Modify File Modification Time), "MFCT" (Modify File
   Creation Time), and "MFF" (Modify File Facts).


Marc