Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:14:42 PDT, bmanning () karoshi com said:

> > > There is a real danger that long-term continued blocking will lead
> > > to "everything on one port"
>
>       fair amount of handwaving there.

Question:  Why was RFC3093 published?  (Think(*) for a bit here...)

About a month later, there was a *major* flame-fest on the IETF list due to
this message:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg11918.html

Yes, the basic reason for this proposal was because many firewalls will pass HTTP
but not BEEP.

What major P2P applications have included a "run over port 80" option to let
themselves through firewalls?

It's not just handwaving.

(*) Remember - satire isn't funny if it isn't about something recognizable...

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