Re: SSH File Transfer Protocol - draft-moonesamy-secsh-filexfer-00

At 05:56 13-07-2013, Mouse wrote:
>Well...it, combined with the rest of ssh, does; sftp itself doesn't
>provide any significant level of security, depending on lower layers
>for that.

Yes.

>My reaction upon looking at the draft is "what's the motivation?".
>That is, what does this draft offer beyond the existing spec?  (Besides
>the version-number regression others have already pointed out.)  If it
>really is just the things listed in appendix A, it strikes me as not
>worth the version-number confusion.

I have to start somewhere.  I could have choose the latest numbered 
draft or "version 3".  In my opinion it was more practical to choose 
the latter and put in some effort in completing that work.

Regards,
S. Moonesamy