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	Title		: FTP Data Connection Assurance
	Author(s)	: G. Lundberg
	Filename	: draft-ietf-ftpext-data-connection-assurance-00.txt
	Pages		: 24
	Date		: 24-May-02
	
This document specifies an extension to the File Transfer Protocol
(FTP) by which a user and server can exchange data port connection
information which may then be used to provide connection assurance.
Two new commands are introduced.  Through use of these commands and
their replies, the user and server exchange information allowing
verification of the socket addresses for a data connection prior to
actual data transmission over the connection.
Implementation of this extension is RECOMMENDED.

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