Re: removing ftp:// from mirrors lists

Hi,

Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Axel Beckert wrote:
> >Mattias Wadenstein wrote:
> >>On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Axel Beckert wrote:
> >>>But before we do that we should think over our mirror CNAME scheme.
> >>
> >>No.
> >
> >Why?
> 
> Because the ftp.ccTLD.debian.org names will need to stay around for
> at least 3-5 years from now, even if we can come to a conclusion to
> rename things ASAP this afternoon.

While the reasoning is totally correct and reasonable, it still
doesn't explain why you deny that we should _think_ about changing our
CNAME scheme.

Because if we don't, we'll never change it and hence not really can
drop the FTP protocol.

I never said, that we should immediately drop the
ftp.$ccTLD.debian.org scheme. But I think we should start _thinking_
about moving to a new scheme, e.g. $ccTLD.mirrors.debian.org since we
already have http://debug.mirrors.debian.org/ and there recently was a
discussion about the naming scheme for per-cloud-provider mirrors.

That way we can also get rid of protocol names in host names in the
long run -- surely not in short term.

		Regards, Axel