On 8/11/21 3:35 PM, Kim Alvefur wrote: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 02:25:56PM -0600, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> Too bad we didn't stick to our guns in 2003 and insist on two ports >> instead of one, but STARTTLS was the recommended approach back then... > > We were always at war with STARTTLS?
We would have preferred to keep using port 5223 for TLS-only, but at that time (2003/2004) IETF/IESG policy was "don't use so many ports, STARTTLS makes it so that you only need one". Peter _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
